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Trade between Colombia and the Netherlands

In 2024, Colombia exported $1.8 billion to the Netherlands and imported $519 million. Colombia ran a surplus of $1.3 billion with the Netherlands, compared with a surplus of $1.2 billion in 2019. The Netherlands was Colombia’s 9th largest trading partner (2% of its trade), and Colombia was the Netherlands’ 57th (0.2%).

Summary

Colombia → Netherlands
$1.8billion
Netherlands → Colombia
$519million
Colombia’s balance
$1.3billion

Balance

Colombia’s trade balance with the Netherlands

Trade between Colombia and the Netherlands grew 4.8-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 1.8
  • Imports 0.5
  • Balance +1.3

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$358 million$120 million$239 million
1996$444 million$140 million$305 million
1997$431 million$158 million$273 million
1998$373 million$141 million$232 million
1999$230 million$104 million$126 million
2000$217 million$102 million$115 million
2001$317 million$96 million$221 million
2002$235 million$87 million$147 million
2003$393 million$121 million$272 million
2004$526 million$143 million$383 million
2005$726 million$187 million$539 million
2006$774 million$313 million$461 million
2007$1.3 billion$325 million$940 million
2008$1.5 billion$366 million$1.1 billion
2009$2.1 billion$265 million$1.8 billion
2010$2.2 billion$342 million$1.9 billion
2011$3.4 billion$357 million$3 billion
2012$3.1 billion$303 million$2.8 billion
2013$2.8 billion$349 million$2.5 billion
2014$2.5 billion$347 million$2.2 billion
2015$1.7 billion$438 million$1.2 billion
2016$1.5 billion$340 million$1.1 billion
2017$1.7 billion$351 million$1.4 billion
2018$1.4 billion$290 million$1.1 billion
2019$1.5 billion$313 million$1.2 billion
2020$852 million$294 million$558 million
2021$1.5 billion$566 million$890 million
2022$3.5 billion$642 million$2.9 billion
2023$2.3 billion$662 million$1.7 billion
2024$1.8 billion$519 million$1.3 billion

What they sell each other

What Colombia sells to the Netherlands

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

  1. Coal$764 million · 42.7%
    6.4 million tonnes · Colombia’s destinations
  2. Crude petroleum$266 million · 14.9%
    575 thousand tonnes · Colombia’s destinations
  3. Avocados, mangoes, pineapples and dates$142 million · 8%
    61 thousand tonnes
  4. Refined petroleum$91 million · 5.1%
    230 thousand tonnes · Colombia’s destinations
  5. Ferroalloys$90 million · 5%
    28 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ sources
  6. Bananas$78 million · 4.4%
    147 thousand tonnes · Colombia’s destinations
  7. Other fresh fruit (berries, kiwi)$71 million · 4%
    16 thousand tonnes
  8. Cut flowers$66 million · 3.7%
    10 thousand tonnes · Colombia’s destinations
  9. Coffee$62 million · 3.5%
    11 thousand tonnes · Colombia’s destinations
  10. Palm oil$34 million · 1.9%
    29 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ sources

What the Netherlands sells to Colombia

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

  1. Refined petroleum$112 million · 21.6%
    152 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  2. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$52 million · 10.1%
    7 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  3. Bulbs, tubers and rhizomes$33 million · 6.3%
    8 thousand tonnes
  4. Nitrogen fertilizers$25 million · 4.8%
    62 thousand tonnes
  5. Frozen vegetables$19 million · 3.6%
    15 thousand tonnes
  6. Vaccines, blood and antisera$18 million · 3.5%
    54 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  7. Water heaters and industrial dryers$14 million · 2.7%
    251 tonnes
  8. Trucks$14 million · 2.7%
    1 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  9. Food processing machinery$13 million · 2.5%
    233 tonnes
  10. Tractors$10 million · 1.9%
    869 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Cartagena to Rotterdam.

The estimated sea route between Cartagena and Rotterdam is 4,767 nautical miles (8,828 km) long: ≈ 11–14 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: 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$2.2 billion · 94.6%
  2. Air$125 million · 5.4%

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

How much each matters to the other

The Netherlands was Colombia’s 9th largest trading partner (2% of its trade), and Colombia was the Netherlands’ 57th (0.2%).

The Netherlands in Colombia’s trade
2%
The Netherlands’ rank among Colombia’s partners
9th
Colombia in the Netherlands’ trade
0.2%
Colombia’s rank among the Netherlands’ partners
57th

Compare with

Other partners of Colombia

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.