International trade in goods; change of ownership, key figures

International trade in goods; change of ownership, key figures

Countries SITC Periods Change of ownership goods; import Total import value (million euros) Change of ownership goods; export Total export value (million euros) Change of ownership goods; export Re-export value (million euros) Change of ownership goods; export Export value of Dutch product (million euros) Change of ownership goods; balance Trade balance (million euros) Change of ownership goods; growth Annual change in import value (%) Change of ownership goods; growth Annual change in export value (%)
Total countries 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 23,402 27,445 15,529 11,916 4,043 -11.2 -3.6
EU (excl. the Netherlands) 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 12,283 15,666 11,343 4,323 3,383 -6.6 -4.6
Non-EU 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 11,120 11,779 4,186 7,593 660 -15.7 -2.2
Europe (excl. the Netherlands) 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 13,709 18,950 13,095 5,856 5,241 -5.9 -3.5
Africa 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 47 518 275 243 472 -15.5 -7.7
America 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 2,234 2,915 783 2,132 681 0.0 17.8
Asia 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 7,368 4,451 1,258 3,193 -2,917 -21.6 -17.3
Oceania 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 36 536 100 436 500 77.2 48.6
Other 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 9 75 18 57 65 -84.5 48.3
Afghanistan 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* . 1 0 1 . 1,507.0 .
Albania 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 6 3 3 6 -61.9 62.8
Algeria 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 3 23 17 6 20 3,010.0 48.9
American Samoa 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 . . . . . .
American Virgin Islands 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 1 0 1 1 400.3 .
Andorra 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 0 0 0 0 1,085.6 -26.0
Angola 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 7 4 4 7 2,214.7 -53.1
Anguilla 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* . 0 0 . . 104.6 .
Antartica 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* . . . . . . .
Antigua and Barbuda 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 0 0 0 0 -41.0 -4.5
Argentina 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 2 23 10 13 20 465.2 -21.3
Armenia 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 5 4 2 5 -97.8 -22.3
Aruba 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 4 2 2 4 1,119.2 -5.8
Australia 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 21 185 78 107 164 51.1 -16.4
Austria 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 155 308 221 86 153 -13.6 -18.8
Azerbaijan 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 1 12 7 5 11 3,637.7 0.8
Bahamas 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 1 0 0 0 5,027.1 -41.6
Bahrain 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 28 25 4 28 -6.3 192.1
Bangladesh 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 7 5 2 7 -52.2 -15.3
Barbados 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 1 0 0 1 3.7 -21.6
Belarus 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 1 0 1 1 68.5 -52.6
Belgium 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 1,761 2,037 1,379 658 276 -6.1 8.5
Belize 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* . 1 . 1 . 732.1 .
Benin 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 1 0 0 1 3,133.3 -63.8
Bermuda 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* . 0 0 0 . -84.3 .
Bhutan 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* . 0 0 0 . -64.9 .
Bolivia 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 2 1 2 2 -42.0 .
Bosnia and Herzegovina 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 5 11 5 6 5 37.0 -25.1
Botswana 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 0 0 0 0 52,398.2 8.4
Bouvet Island 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* . . . . . . .
Brazil 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 6 184 44 140 179 -92.8 6.2
British Indian Ocean Territory 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* . 0 0 0 . 2,739.3 .
British Virgin Islands 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* . 2 0 2 . 946.0 .
Brunei 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 1 2 0 2 1 44.1 63.4
Bulgaria 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 32 107 68 38 74 -18.6 -6.0
Burkina Faso 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 7 3 4 7 -99.9 98.3
Burma 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 1 0 1 1 215.0 .
Burundi 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 0 0 0 0 -24.4 -35.8
Cambodia 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 2 1 1 1 -1 191.2 -1.2
Cameroon 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 3 2 1 3 -55.9 -22.3
Canada 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 71 171 67 104 100 7.7 17.2
Cape Verde 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 1 1 1 1 381.0 .
Caribbean Netherlands 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 3 0 3 3 540.4 -15.5
Cayman Islands 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 221 1 220 221 157.9 .
Central African Republic 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* . 0 0 0 . -62.4 .
Ceuta 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* . 0 0 0 . 6,561.9 .
Chad 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* . 1 1 0 . -55.4 .
Chile 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 40 9 31 40 -52.6 -1.9
China 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 3,143 1,297 182 1,115 -1,846 -31.4 57.5
Christmas Island 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* . . . . . . .
Cocos Islands 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* . . . . . . .
Colombia 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 1 24 9 15 23 365.3 -28.5
Comoros 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* . 0 0 0 . 1,694.4 .
Congo 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 2 1 1 2 -45.9 .
Congo (Democratic Republic) 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 4 2 2 4 6.1 -47.2
Cook Islands 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* . . . . . . .
Costa Rica 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 14 2 0 1 -12 -47.1 -13.1
Côte d’Ivoire 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 11 5 6 11 29.6 -1.4
Croatia 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 25 70 57 13 45 29.0 25.0
Cuba 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 6 2 3 5 -25.8 .
Curaçao 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 15 9 6 15 163.9 98.2
Cyprus 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 2 19 15 3 17 -6.6 -1.5
Czechia 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 697 504 416 88 -193 -26.5 -25.3
Denmark 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 261 359 258 101 98 -6.6 -14.0
Djibouti 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* . 1 0 0 . -53.5 .
Dominica 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 0 . 0 0 -74.1 .
Dominican Republic 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 1 13 10 3 12 -28.6 8.6
Ecuador 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 6 4 3 6 519.8 5.9
Egypt 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 10 58 39 19 48 -41.6 -14.5
El Salvador 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 2 2 0 2 412.0 31.6
Equatorial Guinea 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 1 0 1 1 248.8 .
Eritrea 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* . 0 0 0 . 40.7 .
Estonia 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 14 50 30 19 36 -22.8 -18.9
Eswatini 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 0 0 0 0 116.0 .
Ethiopia 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 7 5 1 7 -89.7 -0.9
Falkland Islands 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* . 0 . 0 . 44.2 .
Faroe Islands 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* . 1 1 1 . 3.1 .
Fiji 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* . 1 1 0 . 88.2 .
Finland 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 151 274 212 62 122 -13.3 37.7
France 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 633 2,036 1,488 548 1,403 -12.7 -6.3
French Polynesia 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 3 4 4 1 1 229.2 39.4
French Southern Territories 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 0 0 0 0 -99.1 161.3
Gabon 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 2 1 2 2 2,033.0 33.3
Gambia 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* . 1 0 0 . -23.5 .
Georgia 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 13 8 5 13 -12.8 24.7
Germany 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 5,425 4,534 3,280 1,254 -891 0.7 -13.0
Ghana 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 21 14 8 21 -54.2 3.1
Gibraltar 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 2 1 1 0 -2 92.7 -13.0
Greece 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 16 128 93 35 112 5.9 17.9
Greenland 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* 0 0 0 0 0 18.5 .
Grenada 7 Machinery and transport equipment 2024 January-February* . 0 0 0 . -55.0 .
Source: CBS.
Explanation of symbols

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In this table, the Dutch import, (re)export value and trade balance according to change of ownership are classified by the sections of the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC). The data is broken down further by continents and countries according to the Geonomenclature (GEONOM).

Data available from: January 2015.

Status of the figures:
The figures on international trade in goods are provisional for a longer period of time, as they can be adjusted on the basis of new or current source information. The provisional figures become revised provisional in the fourth quarter after a reporting year. The revised provisional figures will become definitive in the fourth quarter of the following year.

Changes as of May 2, 2024:
The provisional figures from December 2023 to February 2024 have been adjusted and the provisional figures from July 2023 to September 2023 have also been adjusted.

Changes as of November 22, 2023:
The figures for 2021 have been corrected. For this reporting year, some values (for the countries) were wrongly not settled. This has been fixed in this version.

When will new figures be published?
New figures become available about six weeks after a reporting month.

Description topics

Change of ownership goods; import
Goods that foreign companies and persons transfer to Dutch companies and persons according to the method of change of economic ownership.
Total import value
The total value of the goods that foreign companies and persons transfer to Dutch companies and persons.
Change of ownership goods; export
Goods that Dutch companies and persons transfer to foreign companies and persons according to the method of change of economic ownership.
Total export value
The total value of the goods that Dutch companies and persons transfer to foreign companies and persons.
Re-export value
The part of the export value that consists of originally imported goods that have become the property of Dutch companies and persons, and that are re-exported (almost) unprocessed for foreign use or consumption.
Export value of Dutch product
The part of the export value that consists of goods made by Dutch companies and persons.
Change of ownership goods; balance
The trade balance according to the method of change of economic ownership.
Trade balance
The export value minus the import value.
Change of ownership goods; growth
The development of international trade in goods according to the method of change of economic ownership.
Annual change in import value
Percentage change compared to the same period a year earlier.

Please note:
- For a country group, annual changes are only shown if it represents the same countries as in the same period the year before;
- After a method break, the annual changes in comparison with the previous year are missing.
Annual change in export value
Percentage change compared to the same period a year earlier.

Please note:
- For a country group, annual changes are only shown if it represents the same countries as in the same period the year before;
- After a method break, the annual changes in comparison with the previous year are missing.