{"id":4792,"date":"2012-02-13T10:47:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T17:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=4792"},"modified":"2012-04-23T11:36:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T17:36:16","slug":"idaho-exports-increase-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/02\/13\/idaho-exports-increase-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Exports Increase in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4793\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Wheat ready for harvest. Wheat is one of Idaho's top ag exports. \" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/WheatField_KarenBleier_Getty.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4793\" title=\"Wheat ready for harvest is seen September\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/WheatField_KarenBleier_Getty-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/WheatField_KarenBleier_Getty-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/WheatField_KarenBleier_Getty-620x421.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/WheatField_KarenBleier_Getty-220x149.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Karen Bleier \/ Getty Images<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wheat ready for harvest. Wheat is one of Idaho&#39;s top ag exports.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Idaho&#8217;s Commerce Department reports exports totaled a record $5.89 billion in 2011.\u00a0 According to a press release, the department says exports were up more than 14 percent last year compared to 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Idaho&#8217;s top exports include; semiconductors (memory chips), industrial equipment, precious and semi-precious metals, agriculture commodities, processed food, fertilizers, paper products and personal care products. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s more from the Idaho Commerce Department:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Idaho exports account for roughly ten percent of Idaho\u2019s Gross State Product and more than 30,000 jobs statewide.\u00a0\u00a0 Idaho is one of only 17 states to maintain a trade surplus with the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExports are a strategic way for Idaho to retain and expand our core manufacturing, agricultural and services base,\u201d said Jeffery Sayer, director of the Idaho Department of Commerce.<\/p>\n<p>Demand for Idaho products continues to be strongest from trading partners in North America and Asia Pacific.\u00a0 In 2011, nine out of ten of Idaho\u2019s top export destinations were from these regions, including:\u00a0 Canada, Taiwan, China, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, France, Mexico, Malaysia and the Philippines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idaho&#8217;s Commerce Department reports exports totaled a record $5.89 billion in 2011.\u00a0 According to a press release, the department says exports were up more than 14 percent last year compared to 2010. Idaho&#8217;s top exports include; semiconductors (memory chips), industrial equipment, precious and semi-precious metals, agriculture commodities, processed food, fertilizers, paper products and personal care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":4793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[49,97,157,135,50],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4797,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792\/revisions\/4797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}