New Hampshire

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New Hampshire Exports and Foreign Investment

  • In 2025, New Hampshire exported $7.2 billion of goods to the world. In 2023, exports from New Hampshire supported an estimated 23 thousand jobs (latest data available).

Exports from New Hampshire and Jobs

  • New Hampshire was the 38th largest state exporter of goods in 2025.
  • In 2025, New Hampshire goods exports were $7.2 billion, an increase of 80 percent ($3.2 billion) from its export level in 2015.
  • Goods exports accounted for 5.7 percent of New Hampshire GDP in 2025.
  • New Hampshire goods exports in 2023 supported an estimated 23 thousand jobs (latest data available). Nationally, jobs supported by goods exports pay up to an estimated 18 percent above the national average.

Manufacturing Exports from New Hampshire and Jobs

  • In 2025, New Hampshire exported $6.9 billion of manufactured products.
  • New Hampshire exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 22 thousand jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
  • The state's largest manufacturing export category is transportation equipment, which accounted for $1.9 billion of New Hampshire's total goods exports in 2025.
  • Other top manufacturing exports are computer & electronic products ($1.6 billion), machinery, except electrical ($1.1 billion), chemicals ($769 million), and other fabricated metal products ($408 million).

Exports Sustain Thousands of New Hampshire Businesses Many of Which are SMEs

  • A total of 2,346 companies exported from New Hampshire locations in 2024 (latest data available). Of those, 1,995 (85 percent) were small and medium sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
  • Small and medium-sized firms generated 34.9 percent of New Hampshire's total exports of goods in 2024.

New Hampshire's Largest Export Markets

  • The state’s largest market was Germany. New Hampshire exported $1.5 billion in goods to Germany in 2025, representing 21 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
  • Germany was followed by Canada ($859 million), Mexico ($616 million), Netherlands ($339 million), and China ($331 million).
  • New Hampshire goods exports to major world areas included:

Region

2025 Value

APEC

$2.8 billion

Asia

$1.9 billion

European Union

$3.0 billion

South/Central America and Caribbean

$294 million

Sub-Saharan Africa 

$17 million

  • 28 percent of New Hampshire goods exports ($2.0 billion) in 2025 went to current FTA partners.

New Hampshire's Top Agricultural Exports

  • New Hampshire s the country’s 48th largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $80 million in domestic agricultural exports abroad in 2024 (latest data available according to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture).[1]
  • Top agricultural exports were:

Product

2024 Value

2024 State Rank

other plant products

$55 million

47

dairy products

$8 million

37

other poultry products

$8 million

40

other livestock products

$6 million

47

beef and veal

$1 million

47

International Investment Creates Jobs in New Hampshire

  • In 2024 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 49,800 New Hampshire workers. Major sources of foreign investment in New Hampshire included the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Canada.
  • Foreign investment in New Hampshire was responsible for 7.5 percent of the state's total private-industry employment in 2024.

New Hampshire’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting

  • In 2024 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in New Hampshire recorded goods exports: Boston-Cambridge-Newton ($29.9 billion), and Manchester-Nashua ($2.2 billion).

[1] Estimates of state exports of agricultural products by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and goods exports by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce are based on different methodologies and are not directly comparable.