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Trade between Canada and the Netherlands

In 2024, Canada exported $4.8 billion to the Netherlands and imported $3.2 billion. Canada ran a surplus of $1.6 billion with the Netherlands, compared with a deficit of $28 million in 2019. The Netherlands was Canada’s 14th largest trading partner (0.8% of its trade), and Canada was the Netherlands’ 29th (0.7%).

Summary

Canada → Netherlands
$4.8billion
Netherlands → Canada
$3.2billion
Canada’s balance
$1.6billion

Balance

Canada’s trade balance with the Netherlands

Trade between Canada and the Netherlands grew 4.2-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 4.8
  • Imports 3.2
  • Balance +1.6

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$1.1 billion$789 million$347 million
1996$1.2 billion$747 million$457 million
1997$1.2 billion$824 million$388 million
1998$1.3 billion$833 million$456 million
1999$1.1 billion$841 million$257 million
2000$1.1 billion$903 million$165 million
2001$1.1 billion$930 million$147 million
2002$1.2 billion$987 million$243 million
2003$1.2 billion$1.2 billion-$79 million
2004$1.5 billion$1.2 billion$240 million
2005$1.9 billion$1.4 billion$485 million
2006$2.4 billion$1.4 billion$950 million
2007$3.2 billion$1.7 billion$1.5 billion
2008$2.9 billion$2.2 billion$636 million
2009$2.1 billion$1.7 billion$380 million
2010$2.7 billion$1.7 billion$998 million
2011$3.5 billion$2.6 billion$855 million
2012$3.7 billion$3.6 billion$52 million
2013$2.6 billion$3.3 billion-$761 million
2014$2.9 billion$3.5 billion-$538 million
2015$2.5 billion$2.7 billion-$139 million
2016$2.1 billion$2.8 billion-$671 million
2017$2.2 billion$3.1 billion-$945 million
2018$3.3 billion$3.5 billion-$202 million
2019$3.7 billion$3.7 billion-$28 million
2020$3.8 billion$2.5 billion$1.3 billion
2021$3.7 billion$3.1 billion$546 million
2022$3.8 billion$4.2 billion-$450 million
2023$5 billion$3.2 billion$1.8 billion
2024$4.8 billion$3.2 billion$1.6 billion

What they sell each other

What Canada sells to the Netherlands

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

  1. Crude petroleum$924 million · 19.3%
    1.5 million tonnes · Canada’s destinations
  2. Radioactive elements$813 million · 16.9%
    4 thousand tonnes
  3. Iron ore$705 million · 14.7%
    6.8 million tonnes · Canada’s destinations
  4. Refined petroleum$188 million · 3.9%
    177 thousand tonnes · Canada’s destinations
  5. Unwrought aluminum$148 million · 3.1%
    93 thousand tonnes · Canada’s destinations
  6. Cars$126 million · 2.6%
    11 thousand tonnes · Canada’s destinations
  7. Coal$104 million · 2.2%
    638 thousand tonnes · Canada’s destinations
  8. Unwrought nickel$88 million · 1.8%
    10 thousand tonnes
  9. Turbojets and gas turbines$88 million · 1.8%
    85 tonnes · Canada’s destinations
  10. Ethyl alcohol (ethanol)$86 million · 1.8%
    86 thousand tonnes

What the Netherlands sells to Canada

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

  1. Refined petroleum$956 million · 29.7%
    1.7 million tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  2. Vaccines, blood and antisera$128 million · 4%
    434 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  3. Beer$115 million · 3.6%
    63 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  4. Computers$71 million · 2.2%
    559 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  5. Poultry, beekeeping and forestry machinery$69 million · 2.2%
    6 thousand tonnes
  6. Turbojets and gas turbines$55 million · 1.7%
    69 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  7. Seeds for planting$54 million · 1.7%
    331 tonnes
  8. Nitrogen fertilizers$53 million · 1.7%
    209 thousand tonnes
  9. Elevators, escalators and conveyors$48 million · 1.5%
    3 thousand tonnes
  10. Bulbs, tubers and rhizomes$46 million · 1.4%
    10 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Vancouver to Rotterdam.

The estimated sea route between Vancouver and Rotterdam is 9,090 nautical miles (16,834 km) long: ≈ 21–27 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Panama Canal and Strait of Dover.

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$5.7 billion · 70.7%
  2. Air$2.3 billion · 29.3%

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

How much each matters to the other

The Netherlands was Canada’s 14th largest trading partner (0.8% of its trade), and Canada was the Netherlands’ 29th (0.7%).

The Netherlands in Canada’s trade
0.8%
The Netherlands’ rank among Canada’s partners
14th
Canada in the Netherlands’ trade
0.7%
Canada’s rank among the Netherlands’ partners
29th

Compare with

Other partners of Canada

Other partners of the Netherlands

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.