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Trade between Estonia and the Netherlands

In 2024, Estonia exported $1.1 billion to the Netherlands and imported $599 million. Estonia ran a surplus of $491 million with the Netherlands, compared with a surplus of $27 million in 2019. The Netherlands was Estonia’s 9th largest trading partner (4% of its trade), and Estonia was the Netherlands’ 69th (0.1%).

Summary

Estonia → Netherlands
$1.1billion
Netherlands → Estonia
$599million
Estonia’s balance
$491million

Balance

Estonia’s trade balance with the Netherlands

Trade between Estonia and the Netherlands grew 6.4-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 1.1
  • Imports 0.6
  • Balance +0.5

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$178 million$88 million$90 million
1996$161 million$106 million$55 million
1997$220 million$128 million$92 million
1998$192 million$140 million$52 million
1999$179 million$109 million$70 million
2000$330 million$74 million$256 million
2001$153 million$91 million$62 million
2002$155 million$106 million$48 million
2003$164 million$114 million$50 million
2004$230 million$160 million$71 million
2005$334 million$234 million$100 million
2006$357 million$286 million$72 million
2007$329 million$330 million-$1 million
2008$270 million$355 million-$85 million
2009$458 million$254 million$203 million
2010$344 million$314 million$30 million
2011$637 million$475 million$163 million
2012$403 million$490 million-$87 million
2013$410 million$781 million-$371 million
2014$449 million$825 million-$376 million
2015$386 million$640 million-$254 million
2016$361 million$744 million-$382 million
2017$430 million$740 million-$311 million
2018$484 million$644 million-$159 million
2019$528 million$500 million$27 million
2020$549 million$522 million$27 million
2021$1.3 billion$612 million$708 million
2022$1 billion$767 million$278 million
2023$975 million$642 million$333 million
2024$1.1 billion$599 million$491 million

What they sell each other

What Estonia sells to the Netherlands

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

  1. Refined petroleum$343 million · 31.5%
    285 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ sources
  2. Other measuring instruments$141 million · 12.9%
    271 tonnes
  3. Coal tar oils$61 million · 5.6%
    162 thousand tonnes
  4. Cheese$35 million · 3.2%
    6 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ sources
  5. 1 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ sources
  6. Sawn wood$26 million · 2.4%
    46 thousand tonnes
  7. Peat$20 million · 1.8%
    106 thousand tonnes
  8. 20 thousand tonnes
  9. Prefabricated buildings$18 million · 1.6%
    11 thousand tonnes
  10. Semi-chemical wood pulp$17 million · 1.5%
    29 thousand tonnes

What the Netherlands sells to Estonia

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

  1. 138 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  2. Cut flowers$19 million · 3.1%
    2 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  3. Vaccines, blood and antisera$18 million · 3.1%
    10 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  4. Refined petroleum$17 million · 2.8%
    19 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  5. Live plants and cuttings$15 million · 2.5%
    5 thousand tonnes
  6. Synthetic filament yarn$12 million · 2%
    611 tonnes
  7. 105 tonnes
  8. Chemical wood pulp$11 million · 1.9%
    16 thousand tonnes
  9. 4 thousand tonnes
  10. Coated flat steel$10 million · 1.7%
    7 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Tallinn to Rotterdam.

The estimated sea route between Tallinn and Rotterdam is 1,183 nautical miles (2,191 km) long: ≈ 2.5–3.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Øresund.

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$1.3 billion · 77.7%
  2. Air$377 million · 22.3%

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

How much each matters to the other

The Netherlands was Estonia’s 9th largest trading partner (4% of its trade), and Estonia was the Netherlands’ 69th (0.1%).

The Netherlands in Estonia’s trade
4.1%
The Netherlands’ rank among Estonia’s partners
9th
Estonia in the Netherlands’ trade
0.1%
Estonia’s rank among the Netherlands’ partners
69th

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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.