Importing from Netherlands

The Netherlands stands as the eighth largest export economy in the world and the twentieth most complex economy as ranked by the Economic Complexity Index (ECI). In recent years, the Netherlands exported around $535B yearly and imported around $540B, resulting in a small negative trade balance. In 2013 the GDP of the Netherlands was around $850B and its GDP per capita was around $46k.

It is estimated that the value of exports is over 80% of the Netherlands’ GDP a year. The main export destinations are Germany (around $115B), Belgium-Luxembourg ($90B), the United Kingdom ($52B), France ($33B) and Italy ($26B). The largest exports of the Netherlands are refined petroleum (at around $76B), petroleum gas ($25B), crude petroleum ($26B), computers ($16B) and packaged medicaments ($12B).

In recent years, the Netherlands has exported goods at a worth and total of around 650 billion US dollars, which is over 3% of the world’s total exports. They are also a main exporter of commercial services: which amounts to around 189 billion US dollars. It also ranks as the second largest exporter of agricultural products in the world, being behind the US. Interestingly, around 80% their exports stay within Europe, especially Western Europe. The Netherlands’ most significant trading partner is Germany, and after this is comes the UK, Belgium and France. The Netherlands is a country with a large amount of fertile land and so has a strong food production; it exports food items to many of the countries that it trades with.