State exports hit record $12.2B mark

Exports from Connecticut businesses topped $12.2 billion last year, a 26 percent increase from 2005, according to data released by the Department of Economic and Community Development . The growth in exports from the Nutmeg State has been steady since 2003, when $8.1 billion of products were sold. In a press release announcing the new numbers, Gov. M. Jodi Rell lauded the growth in exports, saying that Connecticut far outpaced the 15 percent average growth in exports seen by the rest of the nation’s states.