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Trade between the Netherlands and Qatar

In 2024, the Netherlands exported $646 million to Qatar and imported $1 billion. The Netherlands ran a deficit of $360 million with Qatar, compared with a surplus of $96 million in 2019. Qatar was the Netherlands’ 70th largest trading partner (0.1% of its trade), and the Netherlands was Qatar’s 14th (1%).

Summary

Netherlands → Qatar
$646million
Qatar → Netherlands
$1billion
The Netherlands’ balance
-$360million

Balance

The Netherlands’ trade balance with Qatar

Trade between the Netherlands and Qatar grew 22-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 0.6
  • Imports 1
  • Balance -0.4

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$75 million$274 thousand$75 million
1996$61 million$718 thousand$60 million
1997$108 million$577 thousand$108 million
1998$58 million$861 thousand$58 million
1999$55 million$752 thousand$55 million
2000$113 million$15 million$98 million
2001$120 million$12 million$108 million
2002$131 million$54 million$76 million
2003$103 million$54 million$50 million
2004$126 million$14 million$112 million
2005$219 million$20 million$200 million
2006$246 million$39 million$207 million
2007$410 million$49 million$361 million
2008$644 million$107 million$537 million
2009$434 million$178 million$256 million
2010$437 million$252 million$185 million
2011$394 million$2.8 billion-$2.4 billion
2012$457 million$412 million$45 million
2013$438 million$842 million-$404 million
2014$401 million$187 million$214 million
2015$516 million$601 million-$85 million
2016$384 million$547 million-$163 million
2017$466 million$384 million$82 million
2018$525 million$356 million$169 million
2019$529 million$433 million$96 million
2020$456 million$274 million$182 million
2021$471 million$635 million-$165 million
2022$577 million$1.5 billion-$902 million
2023$558 million$3 billion-$2.5 billion
2024$646 million$1 billion-$360 million

What they sell each other

What the Netherlands sells to Qatar

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

  1. Turbojets and gas turbines$136 million · 21.1%
    56 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  2. Discs and storage media$45 million · 7%
    767 tonnes
  3. Coal tar oils$39 million · 6%
    80 thousand tonnes
  4. Powdered and condensed milk$36 million · 5.6%
    17 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  5. Crude petroleum$36 million · 5.6%
    50 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  6. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$20 million · 3.2%
    245 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  7. Frozen vegetables$18 million · 2.8%
    10 thousand tonnes
  8. Cut flowers$11 million · 1.7%
    971 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  9. Chocolate$10 million · 1.6%
    982 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  10. Malt extract and food mixes$9 million · 1.4%
    3 thousand tonnes

What Qatar sells to the Netherlands

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

  1. Refined petroleum$943 million · 93.7%
    1.1 million tonnes · Qatar’s destinations
  2. Unwrought aluminum$16 million · 1.6%
    7 thousand tonnes · Qatar’s destinations
  3. Open-chain hydrocarbons$16 million · 1.6%
    13 thousand tonnes
  4. Cameras and broadcast equipment$4 million · 0.43%
    19 tonnes
  5. Petroleum jelly and paraffin wax$4 million · 0.36%
    4 thousand tonnes
  6. Chemically modified fats and oils$2 million · 0.25%
    3 thousand tonnes
  7. Hydrogen and rare gases$2 million · 0.17%
    24 tonnes
  8. Flow, level and pressure meters$1 million · 0.12%
    37 tonnes
  9. Aircraft parts$1 million · 0.11%
    8 tonnes
  10. Computers$1 million · 0.1%
    19 tonnes · the Netherlands’ sources

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Rotterdam to Hamad Port.

The estimated sea route between Rotterdam and Hamad Port is 11,558 nautical miles (21,406 km) long: ≈ 27–34.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Because of the 2024 disruptions, traffic is split: 85% via the Strait of Dover, the Cape of Good Hope and the Strait of Hormuz (11,558 nautical miles); and 15% via the Strait of Dover, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Suez Canal, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Strait of Hormuz (6,645 nautical miles).

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 · 80%
  2. Air$331 million · 20%

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

How much each matters to the other

Qatar was the Netherlands’ 70th largest trading partner (0.1% of its trade), and the Netherlands was Qatar’s 14th (1%).

Qatar in the Netherlands’ trade
0.1%
Qatar’s rank among the Netherlands’ partners
70th
The Netherlands in Qatar’s trade
1.3%
The Netherlands’ rank among Qatar’s partners
14th

Compare with

Other partners of the Netherlands

Other partners of Qatar

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.