New Hampshire

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.
• 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’s exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 22 thousand jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
• The state's largest manufacturing export category was transportation equipment, which accounted for $1.9 billion of New Hampshire's total goods exports in 2025.
• Other top manufacturing exports were computer & electronic products ($1.6 billion), machinery, except electrical ($1.1 billion), chemicals ($768 million), and other fabricated metal products ($408 million).

Exports Sustain Thousands of New Hampshire Businesses many of which are SMEs

• A total of 2,432 companies exported from New Hampshire locations in 2023 (latest data available). Of those, 2,055 (85 percent) were small and medium-sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
• Small and medium-sized firms generated 36.2 percent of New Hampshire's total exports of goods in 2023.

New Hampshire's Largest Export Markets

• The state’s largest export 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 ($852 million), Mexico ($612 million), the Netherlands ($339 million), and China ($331 million).
• New Hampshire goods exports to major world areas included:

• 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 was 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:

	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 2023 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 51 thousand workers in New Hampshire. Major sources of foreign investment in New Hampshire included the United Kingdom, Canada, and Japan.

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).