US Commerce-assisted foreign contracts jump to $244 billion in 2025 on Boeing order gains

WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) – U.S. companies signed foreign government procurement contracts worth $244 billion in 2025 with assistance from the U.S. Commerce Department, nearly triple the total in 2024 as Boeing logged a massive increase in jetliner orders, the agency’s International Trade Administration said on Friday.
ITA said that the 121 contracts, also aided by foreign spending commitments in recent trade deals negotiated by the Trump administration, contain about $206 billion in U.S. export content and will support about 844,000 American jobs.
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In 2024, the last year of the Biden administration, ITA logged $87 billion contracts signed, which was up significantly from a COVID-era low of $17 billion in 2021.
The jump for 2025 comes with a massive increase in Boeing jetliner net orders to 1,075 last year from 377 in 2024. Boeing in 2025 rebounded to its sixth-best order year ever and topped arch rival Airbus’ net orders for the first time in seven years.
Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg signed the deal with President Donald Trump and Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani during Trump’s visit to Doha in May. Trump has boasted that he’s the