How dependent is Belgium on the Netherlands?

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A product has a dominant supplier when a single country sells more than 50% of what is bought of it; we flag it separately above 75%.

• The Netherlands sells 1.7% of what the world exports of crude petroleum; next come Saudi Arabia (14.3%), Russia (9.5%) and United States (9.3%). The rest of the world exported 59.4 times what Belgium buys from the Netherlands.
• The Netherlands sells 1.9% of what the world exports of cameras and broadcast equipment; next come China (46.2%), Vietnam (13.1%) and Taiwan (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 248.4 times what Belgium buys from the Netherlands.
• The Netherlands sells 3.2% of what the world exports of computers; next come China (38.7%), Taiwan (14.2%) and Mexico (12.6%). The rest of the world exported 230.7 times what Belgium buys from the Netherlands.
• The Netherlands sells 28.6% of what the world exports of cocoa butter; next come Indonesia (10.6%), Germany (10.2%) and Malaysia (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 10.3 times what Belgium buys from the Netherlands.
• The Netherlands sells 8.9% of what the world exports of pet and animal feed; next come Germany (9.9%), United States (9.5%) and France (7.6%). The rest of the world exported 54.1 times what Belgium buys from the Netherlands.
• The Netherlands sells 12.1% of what the world exports of fresh milk and cream; next come Germany (13.8%), France (8%) and New Zealand (8%). The rest of the world exported 13.9 times what Belgium buys from the Netherlands.
• The Netherlands sells 5.9% of what the world exports of sunflower, safflower and cottonseed oil; next come Ukraine (29.5%), Russia (24.1%) and Turkey (7%). The rest of the world exported 27.7 times what Belgium buys from the Netherlands.
• The Netherlands sells 3% of what the world exports of soybean meal and pellets; next come Brazil (28.7%), Argentina (26.7%) and United States (18.3%). The rest of the world exported 79.9 times what Belgium buys from the Netherlands.
• The Netherlands sells 7.5% of what the world exports of poultry meat; next come Brazil (26.3%), United States (12.9%) and Poland (12.7%). The rest of the world exported 85.7 times what Belgium buys from the Netherlands.
• The Netherlands sells 3.1% of what the world exports of ferroalloys; next come Indonesia (30.3%), South Africa (11.5%) and Brazil (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 118.9 times what Belgium buys from the Netherlands.

Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.

Belgium is the Netherlands’ 2nd-largest customer, with 15.5% of its exports.

• Trade between Belgium and the Netherlands
• Who does Belgium rely on?
• Who does the Netherlands rely on?
• Dependence of Belgium on France
• Dependence of Belgium on Ireland
• Dependence of Belgium on Germany
• Dependence of Belgium on Sweden
• Dependence of Belgium on the United States
• Dependence of Belgium on Russia
• Dependence of Belgium on China
• Trade profile of Belgium
• Trade profile of the Netherlands
• All countries

Sources and licenses

• CEPII BACI · Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
• Natural Earth · Public domain

Methodology

The data come from CEPII BACI (Etalab 2.0 licence), which reconciles what the exporting and the importing country report, in current USD, FOB. Data up to 2024.

Dependence is the share of a country’s imports (or exports) that each partner accounts for. It does not measure whether a product has a substitute or how much it would cost to change supplier.

The concentration index (HHI) adds up the square of each partner’s share, in percent: it runs from 0 to 10,000. Its equivalent is 10,000 ÷ HHI, the number of partners of the same size that would give that value.

Products are HS4 headings of the 1992 nomenclature (some combine different goods), with a floor of $1 million per product and country.

The EU is the 27 current members in every year; the United Kingdom is outside the EU throughout the series.

Re-exports: countries that act as redistribution hubs carry their notice and the figures are not corrected.