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Trade between Belgium and Norway

In 2024, Belgium exported $3.4 billion to Norway and imported $7.7 billion. Belgium ran a deficit of $4.4 billion with Norway, compared with a deficit of $2.3 billion in 2019. Norway was Belgium’s 14th largest trading partner (1% of its trade), and Belgium was Norway’s 9th (4%).

Summary

Belgium → Norway
$3.4billion
Norway → Belgium
$7.7billion
Belgium’s balance
-$4.4billion

Balance

Belgium’s trade balance with Norway

Trade between Belgium and Norway grew 5-fold since 1995

USD billions (current). Belgium’s exports and imports; bars: its balance (green surplus, red deficit).

  • Exports 3.4
  • Imports 7.7
  • Balance -4.4

Source: CEPII BACI

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YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$1 billion$1.2 billion-$188 million
1996$901 million$1.3 billion-$364 million
1997$784 million$1.2 billion-$446 million
1998$876 million$1.1 billion-$261 million
1999$816 million$1.2 billion-$353 million
2000$667 million$2 billion-$1.4 billion
2001$658 million$2.1 billion-$1.4 billion
2002$745 million$1.8 billion-$1 billion
2003$834 million$2.3 billion-$1.5 billion
2004$1.2 billion$2.7 billion-$1.5 billion
2005$1.4 billion$5.3 billion-$3.8 billion
2006$1.5 billion$5.4 billion-$3.9 billion
2007$1.7 billion$4.3 billion-$2.6 billion
2008$1.8 billion$6.3 billion-$4.5 billion
2009$1.4 billion$4.4 billion-$3 billion
2010$1.4 billion$4.3 billion-$2.9 billion
2011$1.8 billion$5.4 billion-$3.6 billion
2012$1.8 billion$5.5 billion-$3.8 billion
2013$1.7 billion$7.6 billion-$5.9 billion
2014$1.6 billion$6.2 billion-$4.6 billion
2015$1.3 billion$4.4 billion-$3.1 billion
2016$1.3 billion$3.7 billion-$2.4 billion
2017$1.3 billion$4.5 billion-$3.2 billion
2018$1.4 billion$6.2 billion-$4.8 billion
2019$1.4 billion$3.7 billion-$2.3 billion
2020$1.3 billion$2.4 billion-$1 billion
2021$2 billion$8.7 billion-$6.7 billion
2022$2.1 billion$18.5 billion-$16.3 billion
2023$3.1 billion$9.6 billion-$6.5 billion
2024$3.4 billion$7.7 billion-$4.4 billion

What they sell each other

What Belgium sells to Norway

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Cargo and cruise ships$1.1 billion · 34%
    1.4 million tonnes · Norway’s sources
  2. Refined petroleum$402 million · 11.9%
    420 thousand tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  3. 3 thousand tonnes
  4. Cars$153 million · 4.5%
    9 thousand tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  5. 478 tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  6. Wheat gluten$83 million · 2.5%
    56 thousand tonnes
  7. Vaccines, blood and antisera$76 million · 2.3%
    85 tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  8. 45 thousand tonnes
  9. Trucks$71 million · 2.1%
    5 thousand tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  10. Fiberboard (MDF)$54 million · 1.6%
    28 thousand tonnes

What Norway sells to Belgium

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Natural gas and LPG$6.6 billion · 85.6%
    12.5 million tonnes
  2. Refined petroleum$417 million · 5.4%
    714 thousand tonnes · Norway’s destinations
  3. Open-chain hydrocarbons$173 million · 2.2%
    144 thousand tonnes
  4. Unwrought aluminum$76 million · 0.99%
    26 thousand tonnes · Norway’s destinations
  5. 458 tonnes · Belgium’s sources
  6. Coal tar oils$37 million · 0.48%
    45 thousand tonnes
  7. Auto parts$33 million · 0.43%
    4 thousand tonnes · Belgium’s sources
  8. Fish fillets$22 million · 0.29%
    4 thousand tonnes
  9. Turbojets and gas turbines$19 million · 0.25%
    22 tonnes · Belgium’s sources
  10. Crude petroleum$18 million · 0.24%
    22 thousand tonnes · Norway’s destinations

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Antwerp to Oslo.

The estimated sea route between Antwerp and Oslo is 619 nautical miles (1,145 km) long: ≈ 1.5–2 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

It does not cross any major canal or strait.

Sailing estimate without port calls, waiting or transshipment; not a schedule. One main reference port per country: in large countries it does not represent all of its ports.

Split by transport mode

  1. Sea$10.5 billion · 94.4%
  2. Air$624 million · 5.6%

Mode estimated from value per kilo and geography; both directions together.

How much each matters to the other

Norway was Belgium’s 14th largest trading partner (1% of its trade), and Belgium was Norway’s 9th (4%).

Norway in Belgium’s trade
1.4%
Norway’s rank among Belgium’s partners
14th
Belgium in Norway’s trade
4.1%
Belgium’s rank among Norway’s partners
9th

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Sources and methodology

Sources and licenses

Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), in current US dollars, with exports and imports reconciled between countries. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. The sea route comes from our own network derived from World Bank shipping density (not from nautical charts), between one main reference port per country (World Port Index); days are the distance at 14 and 18 knots, without port calls or waiting. Data up to 2024.

Hong Kong, Singapore, the Netherlands and Belgium re-export goods from other countries: their figures include transit.