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Trade between the Netherlands and Romania

In 2024, the Netherlands exported $5.8 billion to Romania and imported $2.6 billion. The Netherlands ran a surplus of $3.2 billion with Romania, compared with a surplus of $1.6 billion in 2019. Romania was the Netherlands’ 27th largest trading partner (0.7% of its trade), and the Netherlands was Romania’s 9th (3%).

Summary

Netherlands → Romania
$5.8billion
Romania → Netherlands
$2.6billion
The Netherlands’ balance
$3.2billion

Balance

The Netherlands’ trade balance with Romania

Trade between the Netherlands and Romania grew 14.2-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 5.8
  • Imports 2.6
  • Balance +3.2

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$288 million$303 million-$15 million
1996$275 million$345 million-$70 million
1997$236 million$278 million-$41 million
1998$286 million$337 million-$51 million
1999$249 million$341 million-$92 million
2000$302 million$334 million-$31 million
2001$339 million$389 million-$50 million
2002$415 million$433 million-$18 million
2003$532 million$616 million-$84 million
2004$678 million$644 million$34 million
2005$732 million$636 million$96 million
2006$997 million$694 million$303 million
2007$2.5 billion$734 million$1.7 billion
2008$3 billion$1.4 billion$1.6 billion
2009$2 billion$1.4 billion$651 million
2010$2.1 billion$1.4 billion$688 million
2011$2.4 billion$1.9 billion$440 million
2012$2.4 billion$1.6 billion$806 million
2013$2.6 billion$2 billion$628 million
2014$2.7 billion$2 billion$734 million
2015$2.7 billion$1.8 billion$890 million
2016$2.9 billion$1.5 billion$1.4 billion
2017$3.2 billion$1.7 billion$1.5 billion
2018$3.8 billion$2.1 billion$1.7 billion
2019$3.8 billion$2.2 billion$1.6 billion
2020$3.5 billion$2.4 billion$1.2 billion
2021$4.6 billion$2.7 billion$1.9 billion
2022$5.3 billion$2.8 billion$2.5 billion
2023$5.6 billion$2.7 billion$2.8 billion
2024$5.8 billion$2.6 billion$3.2 billion

What they sell each other

What the Netherlands sells to Romania

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

  1. Microchips$292 million · 5.1%
    789 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  2. Unwrought aluminum$280 million · 4.9%
    95 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  3. Vaccines, blood and antisera$254 million · 4.4%
    246 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  4. Cameras and broadcast equipment$241 million · 4.2%
    621 tonnes
  5. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$228 million · 4%
    775 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  6. Computers$143 million · 2.5%
    867 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  7. Medical and dental instruments$134 million · 2.3%
    589 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  8. Diodes, transistors and solar cells$122 million · 2.1%
    21 thousand tonnes
  9. Computer and office machine parts$110 million · 1.9%
    3 thousand tonnes
  10. Cut flowers$107 million · 1.9%
    14 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations

What Romania sells to the Netherlands

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

  1. Cars$233 million · 9%
    54 thousand tonnes · Romania’s destinations
  2. Sunflower seeds$119 million · 4.6%
    193 thousand tonnes
  3. Electric heaters and hair dryers$112 million · 4.3%
    7 thousand tonnes
  4. Cameras and broadcast equipment$93 million · 3.6%
    115 tonnes
  5. Rapeseed (canola)$85 million · 3.3%
    201 thousand tonnes
  6. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$76 million · 2.9%
    353 tonnes · Romania’s destinations
  7. Engine parts$68 million · 2.6%
    694 tonnes
  8. Refined petroleum$67 million · 2.6%
    89 thousand tonnes · Romania’s destinations
  9. Cables and wire$66 million · 2.6%
    3 thousand tonnes · Romania’s destinations
  10. Seats and chairs$64 million · 2.5%
    21 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Rotterdam to Constanța.

The estimated sea route between Rotterdam and Constanța is 3,499 nautical miles (6,480 km) long: ≈ 8–10.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Strait of Dover, Strait of Gibraltar, Dardanelles and Bosporus.

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$5.8 billion · 68.7%
  2. Air$2.6 billion · 31.3%

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

How much each matters to the other

Romania was the Netherlands’ 27th largest trading partner (0.7% of its trade), and the Netherlands was Romania’s 9th (3%).

Romania in the Netherlands’ trade
0.7%
Romania’s rank among the Netherlands’ partners
27th
The Netherlands in Romania’s trade
3.5%
The Netherlands’ rank among Romania’s partners
9th

Compare with

Other partners of the Netherlands

Other partners of Romania

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.