Minnesota agricultural and manufactured product exports to China by year:2011: $2.3 billion
Minnesota-China business, at a glance
June 9, 2012 at 1:46AM
2010: $1.96 billion
2009: $1.35 billion
2008: $1.37 billion
2007: $1.37 billion
Minnesota's top manufactured exports to China in 2011:
Machinery: $565 million
Optics, medical instruments: $370 million
Electrical machinery: $338 million
Plastics: $256 million
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce; Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development
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