Airplane parts and frozen fish livers: by the numbers.

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What is each state's leading export? If you said catfish in Louisiana, maple syrup in Vermont and surfboards in California, you need an economics refresher. The Census Bureau reports the following, sometimes surprising, export statistics for 2013.

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States in which airplane parts were the No. 1 export: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma and Washington.

$12.6 billion

The value of New York's top export--diamonds.

1

States in which lobster was the leading export. Maine shipped $243 million in crustaceans.

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States that claimed gold as the No. 1 export: Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada and Utah.

$58.1 billion

Value of exported Texas oil and oil products, topping that of Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota and the U.S. Virgin Islands, where oil and oil products are also the...