Houston led the nation in exports in ’22, shipping more than $191.80亿美元的海外货物和商品. 纽约排名第二，芝加哥第三. Houston has ranked as the nation’s top exporting metro nine out of the past 10 years.
数据来自美国.S. Census Bureau’s origin of movement (OM) series. Unlike customs district data which measures trade passing through the region, the OM series tracks goods based on the metro from which a good began its export journey.
Since ’17, Houston’s OM exports have more than doubled. No other metro has seen a comparable increase. New Orleans has come closest with its exports up 67.0 percent, followed by Dallas-Fort Worth, up 65.6%.
The Houston/加尔维斯顿 Customs District set another tonnage record in ’22. The eight ports that comprise the district handled over 382.8 million metric tons of goods and commodities, a 10.比21年增长了4%. 这些货物价值372美元.60亿美元，43亿美元.0%的人会跳过21年. 自2012年以来，吨位已攀升至54.1%.
Customs district data differs from the origin of movement (OM) export data in that it reflects what passes through a region, which doesn’t necessarily correspond with where an item was manufactured or produced.
The Houston district is among the few where exports consistently exceed imports. 出口占66.0 percent of all cargo value handled in ’22. 这一数字高于51.2 percent in ’13, the first year that exports overtook imports. 洛杉矶, 纽约, and Savanah may rank near Houston in overall value of shipments, but exports comprise a smaller share of the cargoes they handle. 在1922年，出口占了17%.9 percent of the value of shipments through 纽约, 16.1%来自洛杉矶，25%来自洛杉矶.5%通过萨凡纳.
The Port of Houston set a record for container traffic in ’22, handling nearly 3.2 million loaded TEUs (twenty-foot-equivalent units). 也就是482,000 TEU (17).比2011年增长了9%. Houston ranked as the nation’s fifth busiest container port, 洛杉矶之后, 纽约, 长滩, 和大草原. The Port of Houston handles over 70 percent of all container traffic on the U.S. 墨西哥湾沿岸.
Air travel is one of two areas where Houston’s ties to the global economy have yet to return to pre-COVID levels. 10.4 million international passengers handled in ’22 reflects an improvement over the 7.3 million passengers in ’21 but still fell 13.比2009年的水平低6%.
International air cargo is another area still lagging behind pre-pandemic levels. 188年,000 metric tons handled at Bush Intercontinental Airport in ’22 fell 22,000吨低于19级.
在20年，只有13个非美国.S. firms announced plans to expand or relocate operations in Houston. Foreign investment picked up in ’21 with the region capturing 33 projects. It accelerated in ’22 with 44 announcements.
自09年, more than 500 foreign-owned firms have announced over 700 projects in metro Houston, according to the Partnership’s New 皇冠HGA010官方下载的公告 database. 母公司来自38个国家. Those 700+ projects stretch across 65 industries and represent $36.70亿的资本投资. That’s likely an underestimate since many firms did not disclose the value of their investments.
The flow of foreign investment shows no sign of letting up this year. Just over half of all the relocation and expansion prospects the Partnership’s economic development team worked on in Q1/23 involved foreign-owned companies.
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Note: The geographic area referred to in this publication as “Houston,” "Houston Area” and “Metro Houston” is the nine-county Census designated metropolitan statistical area of Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX. 这九个县是:奥斯汀, Brazoria, 钱伯斯, 本德堡, 加尔维斯顿, 哈里斯, 自由, 蒙哥马利和沃勒.
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