How dependent is the Netherlands on the United States?

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 United States sells 15.4% of what the world exports of molybdenum ore; next come Chile (23.7%), Peru (20%) and Mexico (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 13 times what the Netherlands buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 46.2% of what the world exports of other nuts (almonds, walnuts); next come Turkey (10%), China (5.7%) and Australia (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 31.9 times what the Netherlands buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 2.3% of what the world exports of sulfonamides; next come Ireland (31.2%), Switzerland (26.4%) and India (9.2%). The rest of the world exported 86.3 times what the Netherlands buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 10.2% of what the world exports of ion-exchange resins; next come China (19.1%), Sweden (17.3%) and Germany (9.7%). The rest of the world exported 36.8 times what the Netherlands buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 18.4% of what the world exports of glands, heparin and organ extracts; next come China (18.8%), Singapore (12.7%) and France (8.5%). The rest of the world exported 57 times what the Netherlands buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 34% of what the world exports of artificial filament tow (acetate); next come Japan (19.4%), Germany (13.6%) and Belgium (9.8%). The rest of the world exported 51.3 times what the Netherlands buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 16.2% of what the world exports of guitars, violins and other string instruments; next come China (42.7%), Indonesia (9%) and Mexico (8.9%). The rest of the world exported 23.3 times what the Netherlands buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 12.7% of what the world exports of lead ore; next come Mexico (20.1%), Peru (15.7%) and Russia (9.7%). The rest of the world exported 215.9 times what the Netherlands buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 12.5% of what the world exports of direct-reduced iron; next come Russia (18.5%), Oman (16.7%) and Trinidad and Tobago (13.4%). The rest of the world exported 149.3 times what the Netherlands buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 31.1% of what the world exports of boron oxides and boric acid; next come Turkey (27.3%), Chile (11.6%) and Russia (9.3%). The rest of the world exported 20.4 times what the Netherlands buys from the United States.

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

The Netherlands is the United States’ 8th-largest customer, with 3.4% of its exports.

• Trade between the Netherlands and the United States
• Who does the Netherlands rely on?
• Who does the United States rely on?
• Dependence of the Netherlands on China
• Dependence of the Netherlands on Germany
• Dependence of the Netherlands on Belgium
• Dependence of the Netherlands on the Cayman Islands
• Dependence of the Netherlands on Brazil
• Dependence of the Netherlands on Canada
• Trade profile of the Netherlands
• Trade profile of the United States
• 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.