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Since establishment of the WTO in 1995, import tariffs have declined around the world. Exporters nevertheless have to comply with more and more regulations.

Ukraine is a very small trading partner for the European Union (EU)

The agricultural surplus ion the trade balance 26.1 bn euros versus 47.5 bn euros for all goods.

In 2016, the trade deficit on Bonaire grew for the second consecutive year.

The largest trade surplus for Dutch construction services is with the Asian continent

In a span of five years, the number of Belgian-owned multinationals in the Netherlands has grown from 1,138 in 2015 to 1,528 in 2020. Over the same period, the contribution of Belgian-owned firms to...

Dutch trade in facts and figures 2019 – export, investment and employment is an annually recurring publication. International trade in goods and services, investment, value chains, multinationals and...

Imports; exports; services broken down into various types of services Countries

International trade in services is dominated by a small group of traders.

The number of corporate bankruptcies, adjusted for court session days, has increases. There was 15 more bankruptcies in September than in the previous month.

After secondary education, young people up to the age of 25 are more likely to attend secondary vocational education (MBO) than higher vocational education (HBO) or university (WO).

In 2018, the trade deficits of Bonaire and Saba rose while the deficit of St Eustatius declined.

In August 2022, the total volume of goods exports was up by 2.5 percent year on year.

The Netherlands had a goods trade surplus of 52 billion euros in 2016.

Key figures on goods trade in the period January – August 2018

First results of the development of a microdata time series (2012-2016) on the international trade in services

In 2017, the trade deficits of Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba were higher than in 2016.

Over half of enterprises outside the service sector with stakes in a foreign business in 2014 also maintained a trade relationship with the country where that business is located.

Consumers spent over 2 percent more in September 2022 compared to one year previously. They spent more on services, but less on goods.

Noord-Holland, Zuid-Holland and Noord-Brabant account for nearly two-thirds of goods trade with the United Kingdom.

Dutch Foreign Trade and Development Minister visits CBS to discuss international topics.

One-fifth of all exports by Dutch manufacturers consist of products that are not self-manufactured, but supplied along with their own products, a phenomenon referred to as carry-along trade.

The economic climate in December 2022 is more negative than it was in November, according to the CBS Business Cycle Tracer.

Replicating the delineation of carry-along trade (CAT) developed by Bernard et al (2012) for the Netherlands, case studies at the firm-product-country level reveal that many sourced export products...

The Netherlands became a net importer of natural gas last year. Natural gas had an import value of almost 12 billion euros, an increase of 43 percent on 2017.