Mississippi

Mississippi's low-income households bear a disproportionate tariff burden relative to their earnings, making the state's modest $1,480 per-household figure more painful than it appears. The state's petroleum refining corridor along the Gulf Coast processes crude into exportable products, but tariffs on imported equipment and chemical inputs raise operating costs. Mississippi's poultry industry — the state is a top-5 broiler producer — faces the same Chinese and Mexican retaliatory tariffs hitting other southeastern poultry states. Cotton, Mississippi's historical crop, remains an important export now targeted by retaliatory measures; the Delta region's cotton farmers compete with Brazilian and Indian growers who face no such penalties. Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula — one of only two yards building Navy surface combatants — depends on steel (25% tariff) and specialized alloys for destroyers and amphibious ships. The Nissan plant in Canton brought thousands of manufacturing jobs but now faces 25% auto tariffs on imported components. Mississippi's catfish industry, once dominant, already lost market share to cheaper Vietnamese imports — tariffs on those imports provide one of the state's few tariff 'wins.'