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2024 figure, USTR/ITA; 2016 vintage printed beside it, dated
The federal count that exists is the metro's; the town's own share is not counted by any federal carrier reached. The U.S. Trade Representative's Indiana page, republishing the Commerce Department's metropolitan goods-export data, prints for 2024 — its stated latest data — "South Bend-Mishawaka ($989.6 million)," in a list headed by Chicago-Naperville-Elgin at $56.7 billion and Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood at $26.2 billion; the same page's $68.8 billion Indiana total for 2025 is a state figure, not the town's or the metro's. The underlying series, the International Trade Administration's metropolitan trade data, publishes annual goods exports by metropolitan area from 2005 on origin-of-movement ZIP methodology, with county detail only for the largest fifty metros. No North Liberty figure appears in it, and no county series reached breaks the town out. That is the whole modern ledger at this town's true size: a $989.6 million metro inside which North Liberty's contribution — the extrusion plant's out-of-metro shipments included — is not separately counted. One older vintage prints beside it, dated, because the two are sometimes quoted against each other: an ITA factsheet of February 2018 printed South Bend–Mishawaka's 2016 goods exports as $1.5 billion. Different year, different vintage — not a contradiction of the 2024 figure, and neither number is a town figure under any reading.