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Netherlands (Kingdom of the)

Heavy-third FAO agricultural trade profile for Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (2018–2023).

Net Agricultural Exporter
$382.8B
exports, 2018–2023
$289.2B
imports, 2018–2023
+$93.7B
trade surplus
$672.0B
total trade (imports + exports)

Netherlands (Kingdom of the) agricultural trade, 2018–2023

Imports vs exports by year, FAO FAOSTAT Trade: Crops and Livestock

ImportsExports$0$18.4B$36.8B$55.2B$73.7B201820192020202120222023

Heavy cumulative trade book

Netherlands (Kingdom of the) in the heavy-trade third

$672.0B cumulative 2018–2023 ag trade puts Netherlands (Kingdom of the) in the heaviest third of FAO partners here (#4 of 50).

Cumulative 2018-2023 ag trade for Netherlands (Kingdom of the) reached $672.0B, a heavy-third book where US duty shifts on its headline commodities move real volume. Leading export: Cheese from whole cow milk; leading import: Cocoa beans. US MFN duties follow the product's HTS classification, not origin; on a heavy book, map each Netherlands (Kingdom of the)-origin shipment to the exact 8- or 10-digit subheading before quoting landed cost.

Dig deeper: How US tariffs move trade flows. Source: FAO FAOSTAT Trade: Crops and Livestock (USD converted from 1000 USD units).

Top Agricultural Exports (2023)

# Commodity Export Value
1 Cheese from whole cow milk $5.6B
2 Meat of chickens; fresh or chilled $3.0B
3 Other non-alcoholic caloric beverages $3.0B
4 Meat of cattle boneless; fresh or chilled $2.9B
5 Potatoes; frozen $2.8B
6 Infant food $2.4B
7 Meat of pig with the bone; fresh or chilled $2.1B
8 Beer of barley; malted $2.1B
9 Tomatoes $1.9B
10 Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80% vol; spirits; liqueurs and other spirituous beverages $1.9B

Top Agricultural Imports (2023)

# Commodity Import Value
1 Cocoa beans $2.4B
2 Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions; chemically modified; except those hydrogenated; inter-esterified; re-esterified or elaidinized; inedible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils $2.3B
3 Soya beans $2.1B
4 Cheese from whole cow milk $2.0B
5 Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining $1.7B
6 Wine $1.6B
7 Palm oil $1.6B
8 Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80% vol; spirits; liqueurs and other spirituous beverages $1.6B
9 Avocados $1.5B
10 Meat of chickens; fresh or chilled $1.5B

Trade Profile Summary

  • Leading agricultural export: Cheese from whole cow milk
  • Leading agricultural import: Cocoa beans

Nationwide trading partners with similar ag trade scale

Two FAO peer sets for Netherlands (Kingdom of the)'s heavy-third book, each excluding this country (commodity tables above stay the bilateral path).

Similar total ag trade

Nearest other countries by cumulative imports+exports ($672.0B here).

Germany $710.5B Brazil $633.0B France $554.3B Italy $423.3B Spain $395.2B Canada $377.1B

Similar trade balance

Nearest other countries by export−import balance (+$93.7B here).

Canada +$94.9B Ukraine +$96.3B Indonesia +$99.2B France +$105.7B United States of America +$107.4B Thailand +$74.5B

Sources: U.S. International Trade Commission Harmonized Tariff Schedule (2026 Basic Edition) and FAO FAOSTAT Trade: Crops and Livestock. See our methodology for how figures are computed.

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