International trade in goods; border crossing, key figures

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Countries SITC Border crossing goods; import Inbound transit value (million euros) Border crossing goods; export Outbound transit value (million euros)
Total countries Total goods 172,760 202,795
0 Food and live animals 7,249 8,618
1 Beverages and tobacco 1,117 2,099
2 Crude materials, inedible, except f... 5,552 5,082
3 Mineral fuels, lubricants and relat... 14,292 14,798
4 Animal and vegetable oils, fats and... 312 422
5 Chemicals and related products, n.e.s. 34,151 43,708
6 Manufactured goods classified chief... 13,968 15,626
7 Machinery and transport equipment 75,298 87,697
8 Miscellaneous manufactured articles 20,812 24,328
9 Commodities and transactions not cl... 9 415
EU (excl. the Netherlands) Total goods 42,469 156,341
0 Food and live animals 602 7,239
1 Beverages and tobacco 476 1,329
2 Crude materials, inedible, except f... 668 4,859
3 Mineral fuels, lubricants and relat... 1,326 11,894
4 Animal and vegetable oils, fats and... 144 321
5 Chemicals and related products, n.e.s. 20,270 26,887
6 Manufactured goods classified chief... 2,442 14,166
7 Machinery and transport equipment 13,366 69,884
8 Miscellaneous manufactured articles 3,165 19,728
9 Commodities and transactions not cl... 9 33
Non-EU Total goods 130,291 46,454
0 Food and live animals 6,647 1,379
1 Beverages and tobacco 641 769
2 Crude materials, inedible, except f... 4,883 223
3 Mineral fuels, lubricants and relat... 12,966 2,904
4 Animal and vegetable oils, fats and... 168 101
5 Chemicals and related products, n.e.s. 13,881 16,822
6 Manufactured goods classified chief... 11,526 1,460
7 Machinery and transport equipment 61,931 17,813
8 Miscellaneous manufactured articles 17,647 4,600
9 Commodities and transactions not cl... 0 382
Europe (excl. the Netherlands) Total goods 60,287 172,124
0 Food and live animals 2,166 7,906
1 Beverages and tobacco 648 1,714
2 Crude materials, inedible, except f... 1,138 4,966
3 Mineral fuels, lubricants and relat... 5,904 12,842
4 Animal and vegetable oils, fats and... 150 396
5 Chemicals and related products, n.e.s. 22,564 31,648
6 Manufactured goods classified chief... 6,881 14,847
7 Machinery and transport equipment 15,954 76,947
8 Miscellaneous manufactured articles 4,874 20,826
9 Commodities and transactions not cl... 9 33
Africa Total goods 5,067 1,686
0 Food and live animals 1,364 64
1 Beverages and tobacco 68 6
2 Crude materials, inedible, except f... 614 4
3 Mineral fuels, lubricants and relat... 1,938 151
4 Animal and vegetable oils, fats and... 9 7
5 Chemicals and related products, n.e.s. 44 374
6 Manufactured goods classified chief... 749 43
7 Machinery and transport equipment 222 928
8 Miscellaneous manufactured articles 59 110
9 Commodities and transactions not cl... . .
America Total goods 27,652 16,124
0 Food and live animals 2,610 226
1 Beverages and tobacco 341 75
2 Crude materials, inedible, except f... 3,152 5
3 Mineral fuels, lubricants and relat... 3,423 1,569
4 Animal and vegetable oils, fats and... 47 4
5 Chemicals and related products, n.e.s. 7,573 6,501
6 Manufactured goods classified chief... 1,152 413
7 Machinery and transport equipment 6,173 5,191
8 Miscellaneous manufactured articles 3,181 2,140
9 Commodities and transactions not cl... 0 0
Asia Total goods 77,543 11,511
0 Food and live animals 1,001 344
1 Beverages and tobacco 58 291
2 Crude materials, inedible, except f... 376 107
3 Mineral fuels, lubricants and relat... 1,463 105
4 Animal and vegetable oils, fats and... 87 15
5 Chemicals and related products, n.e.s. 3,904 4,739
6 Manufactured goods classified chief... 5,149 270
7 Machinery and transport equipment 52,923 4,489
8 Miscellaneous manufactured articles 12,582 1,152
9 Commodities and transactions not cl... 0 0
Oceania Total goods 1,387 685
0 Food and live animals 109 79
1 Beverages and tobacco 3 13
2 Crude materials, inedible, except f... 272 0
3 Mineral fuels, lubricants and relat... 808 0
4 Animal and vegetable oils, fats and... 0 1
5 Chemicals and related products, n.e.s. 32 441
6 Manufactured goods classified chief... 32 5
7 Machinery and transport equipment 19 52
8 Miscellaneous manufactured articles 113 93
9 Commodities and transactions not cl... . .
Other Total goods 824 665
0 Food and live animals 0 0
1 Beverages and tobacco 0 0
2 Crude materials, inedible, except f... 0 1
3 Mineral fuels, lubricants and relat... 756 131
4 Animal and vegetable oils, fats and... 18 .
5 Chemicals and related products, n.e.s. 34 5
6 Manufactured goods classified chief... 5 49
7 Machinery and transport equipment 8 90
8 Miscellaneous manufactured articles 4 7
9 Commodities and transactions not cl... 0 382
Afghanistan Total goods 0 1
Source: CBS.
Explanation of symbols

Table explanation


In this table, the Dutch import, (re)export and incoming and outgoing transit value according to border crossing 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 February 3, 2026:
The provisional figures for November 2025 have been added. The provisional figures for September 2025 and October 2025 have also been adjusted.

Changes as of November 26, 2025:
The figures for 2015 up and until 2023 have been corrected. The figures for 2024 and 2025 have been adjusted. For these years, it was possible for the annual change of the export value to be unjustly accounted for as annual change of the import value. The previous has been fixed in this version.

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

Description topics

Border crossing goods; import
Goods that come to the Netherlands from abroad according to the method of physical border crossing.
Inbound transit value
The part of the import value that consists of goods that foreign companies and persons re-export from the Netherlands to abroad in an (almost) unprocessed state.

Please note: this concerns so-called quasi-transit, whereby goods do not cross the Netherlands exclusively for technical transport reasons. In most cases they are only in the Netherlands for customs declaration.
Border crossing goods; export
Goods that go abroad from the Netherlands according to the method of physical border crossing.
Outbound transit value
The part of the export value that consists of originally imported goods that foreign companies and persons re-export from the Netherlands to abroad in an (almost) unprocessed state.

Please note: this concerns so-called quasi-transit, whereby goods do not cross the Netherlands exclusively for technical transport reasons. In most cases they are only in the Netherlands for customs declaration.