New Hampshire

New Hampshire's compact economy punches above its weight in precision manufacturing and defense technology. BAE Systems' Nashua campus is the state's largest private employer, building electronic warfare systems and intelligence platforms using globally-sourced components now subject to tariffs. The state's precision machining sector — dozens of small shops across the Merrimack Valley — produces high-tolerance parts for aerospace, medical devices, and semiconductors, all dependent on imported specialty metals and alloys at higher tariff-inflated prices. New Hampshire's lack of income tax and sales tax provides some consumer buffer, but imported goods still cost more. The state's maple syrup industry (second only to Vermont in New England) and dairy farms face retaliatory tariffs in niche markets. Cross-border commerce with Quebec — tourism, timber, and manufactured goods — is disrupted by broader North American trade tensions. New Hampshire's growing tech sector, concentrated along the I-93 corridor south of Manchester, imports computing equipment and components subject to tariffs. The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (technically in Kittery, Maine but serving NH) overhauls submarines using tariff-affected steel and alloys.