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Trade between the Netherlands and Ukraine

In 2024, the Netherlands exported $1 billion to Ukraine and imported $2 billion. The Netherlands ran a deficit of $1 billion with Ukraine, compared with a deficit of $1.1 billion in 2019. Ukraine was the Netherlands’ 50th largest trading partner (0.3% of its trade), and the Netherlands was Ukraine’s 10th (3%).

Summary

Netherlands → Ukraine
$1billion
Ukraine → Netherlands
$2billion
The Netherlands’ balance
-$1billion

Balance

The Netherlands’ trade balance with Ukraine

Trade between the Netherlands and Ukraine grew 14-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 1
  • Imports 2
  • Balance -1

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$158 million$59 million$99 million
1996$217 million$109 million$108 million
1997$225 million$141 million$84 million
1998$186 million$140 million$47 million
1999$152 million$126 million$26 million
2000$166 million$160 million$5 million
2001$198 million$237 million-$38 million
2002$251 million$338 million-$86 million
2003$334 million$516 million-$182 million
2004$401 million$555 million-$155 million
2005$554 million$514 million$39 million
2006$756 million$659 million$97 million
2007$1 billion$736 million$306 million
2008$1.4 billion$1.1 billion$310 million
2009$755 million$606 million$149 million
2010$935 million$595 million$339 million
2011$1.4 billion$864 million$507 million
2012$1.3 billion$924 million$412 million
2013$1.2 billion$1.1 billion$128 million
2014$893 million$1.1 billion-$234 million
2015$536 million$935 million-$399 million
2016$609 million$980 million-$372 million
2017$696 million$1.7 billion-$1 billion
2018$893 million$1.6 billion-$751 million
2019$842 million$1.9 billion-$1.1 billion
2020$838 million$1.8 billion-$1 billion
2021$1.1 billion$2.2 billion-$1.1 billion
2022$1.2 billion$1.5 billion-$311 million
2023$1.2 billion$1.5 billion-$317 million
2024$1 billion$2 billion-$1 billion

What they sell each other

What the Netherlands sells to Ukraine

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

  1. Tractors$100 million · 9.9%
    14 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  2. Refined petroleum$44 million · 4.4%
    30 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  3. Cocoa butter$32 million · 3.2%
    3 thousand tonnes
  4. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$26 million · 2.6%
    303 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  5. X-ray and radiation equipment$22 million · 2.2%
    149 tonnes
  6. Ethers and organic peroxides$21 million · 2.1%
    17 thousand tonnes
  7. Live plants and cuttings$21 million · 2.1%
    17 thousand tonnes
  8. Cocoa powder$20 million · 2%
    5 thousand tonnes
  9. Cheese$20 million · 2%
    3 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  10. Coffee$20 million · 2%
    4 thousand tonnes

What Ukraine sells to the Netherlands

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

  1. Corn$535 million · 26.3%
    2.9 million tonnes · Ukraine’s destinations
  2. Sunflower, safflower and cottonseed oil$459 million · 22.5%
    513 thousand tonnes
  3. Rapeseed (canola)$242 million · 11.9%
    511 thousand tonnes · Ukraine’s destinations
  4. Poultry meat$222 million · 10.9%
    76 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ sources
  5. Soybeans$164 million · 8%
    394 thousand tonnes · Ukraine’s destinations
  6. Meal from other oilseeds$47 million · 2.3%
    188 thousand tonnes
  7. Wheat$33 million · 1.6%
    175 thousand tonnes · Ukraine’s destinations
  8. Plywood$19 million · 0.92%
    19 thousand tonnes
  9. Fruit and vegetable juices$16 million · 0.79%
    8 thousand tonnes
  10. Sawn wood$14 million · 0.67%
    32 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Rotterdam to Odesa.

The estimated sea route between Rotterdam and Odesa is 3,657 nautical miles (6,772 km) long: ≈ 8.5–11 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$2.9 billion · 94.4%
  2. Air$170 million · 5.6%

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

How much each matters to the other

Ukraine was the Netherlands’ 50th largest trading partner (0.3% of its trade), and the Netherlands was Ukraine’s 10th (3%).

Ukraine in the Netherlands’ trade
0.3%
Ukraine’s rank among the Netherlands’ partners
50th
The Netherlands in Ukraine’s trade
2.6%
The Netherlands’ rank among Ukraine’s partners
10th

Compare with

Other partners of the Netherlands

Other partners of Ukraine

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.