The following export products represent the highest dollar value in New Hampshire global shipments during 2020. Also shown is the percentage share each export category represents in terms of overall exports from New Hampshire.

Figures are shown at the more granular six-digit Harmonized Tariff System code level, for more precise product identification.

1. Aircraft including engines, parts: US$920 million (16.9% of New Hampshire’s total exports)
2. Mixed medicines (not in dosage): $327 million (6%)
3. Office machine parts and accessories: $182 million (3.3%)
4. TV reception/transmission equipment parts: $173 million (3.2%)
5. Cell phones: $168 million (3.1%)
6. Machine tool parts, accessories: $151 million (2.8%)
7. Small portable digital computers: $128 million (2.3%)
8. Revolvers, pistols: $103 million (1.9%)
9. Antennas, reflectors including parts: $100 million (1.8%)
10. Turbo-jet parts: $95 million (1.7%)

New Hampshire’s top 10 exports accounted for 43% of the overall value of the state’s global shipments.

Small portable digital computers were the fastest grower among the top 10 export categories, up by 652.9% from 2019 to 2020. In second place for improving export sales were revolvers and pistols which rose 281.5%. New Hampshire’s shipments of antennas and reflectors including parts posted the third-fastest gain in value, up by 203%.

There were two decliners year over year among New Hampshire’s top 10 export products. Exports of aircraft including engines and other parts fell -31.7% while shipments of machine tool parts or accessories dropped -3.2%.

New Hampshire racked up an overall -$1.5 billion deficit exporting and importing products during 2020. That dollar amount reflects a -68.4% annual reduction from -$4.7 billion in red ink in 2019.

Another way of saying surplus or deficit is positive or negative net exports. In a nutshell, the term “net exports” quantifies the amount by which foreign spending on a state’s goods or services exceeds or lags that same state’s spending on foreign goods or services.

Below are New Hampshire’s top 10 import products highlighting the state’s highest spending on foreign-made goods in 2020.

1. Turbo-jet parts: $1.6 billion (23.4% of New Hampshire’s total imports)
2. Miscellaneous petroleum oils: $290 million (4.2%)
3. Plastic plates, sheets, foil, film, strips: $194 million (2.8%)
4. Footwear covering ankle (rubber/plastic/ leather outer soles): $159 million (2.3%)
5. Modems, similar reception/transmission devices: $148 million (2.1%)
6. Gears, gearing: $107 million (1.5%)
7. Integrated circuits (processors/controllers): $85 million (1.2%)
8. Petroleum bitumen: $76 million (1.1%)
9. Medical/dental/veterinarian instruments: $75 million (1.1%)
10. Miscellaneous optical devices $66 million (0.9%)

New Hampshire has highly negative net exports in the international trade of petroleum oils and turbo-jet parts. In turn, these cashflows indicate New Hampshire’s competitive disadvantages under those product categories.

The following list shows the top 10 customers that purchased about two-thirds (67.3%) worth of the total value of products exported from New Hampshire during 2020.

1. Germany: $751 million (13.8% of New Hampshire’s total exports)
2. Canada: $660 million (12.1%)
3. Ireland: $392 million (7.2%)
4. Japan: $352 million (6.5%)
5. United Arab Emirates: $348 million (6.4%)
6. Mexico: $342 million (6.3%)
7. China: $334 million (6.1%)
8. Hong Kong: $188 million (3.4%)
9. Netherlands: $160 million (2.9%)
10. Norway: $139 million (2.6%)

New Hampshire’s top trade partners in North America (Canada and Mexico) bought 18.4% of the overall value of exported goods from the Granite State. That percentage lags the 26.5% share for major suppliers from Europe (Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway).

New Hampshire Export Companies

Two New Hampshire-based corporations rank among Fortune 1000 Companies, a list that showcases America’s largest businesses. These are listed below.

• PC Connection (computer hardware, software, services)
• Sprague Resources LP (petroleum, natural gas)

Shown within brackets for each company is a summary of the international trade-related products or services which each business sells.