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Trade between the Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates

In 2024, the Netherlands exported $4.5 billion to the United Arab Emirates and imported $1.9 billion. The Netherlands ran a surplus of $2.5 billion with the United Arab Emirates, compared with a surplus of $355 million in 2019. The United Arab Emirates was the Netherlands’ 34th largest trading partner (0.5% of its trade), and the Netherlands was the United Arab Emirates’ 18th (1%).

Summary

Netherlands → United Arab Emirates
$4.5billion
United Arab Emirates → Netherlands
$1.9billion
The Netherlands’ balance
$2.5billion

Balance

The Netherlands’ trade balance with the United Arab Emirates

Trade between the Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates grew 13-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 4.5
  • Imports 1.9
  • Balance +2.5

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$434 million$60 million$375 million
1996$404 million$59 million$345 million
1997$469 million$79 million$390 million
1998$590 million$85 million$505 million
1999$761 million$89 million$671 million
2000$674 million$140 million$534 million
2001$776 million$97 million$679 million
2002$869 million$74 million$795 million
2003$1.2 billion$169 million$1 billion
2004$1.6 billion$552 million$1 billion
2005$1 billion$1.2 billion-$125 million
2006$2.3 billion$724 million$1.6 billion
2007$1.4 billion$1.3 billion$81 million
2008$1.7 billion$1.1 billion$563 million
2009$2.7 billion$524 million$2.1 billion
2010$2.8 billion$902 million$1.9 billion
2011$2.9 billion$1.4 billion$1.5 billion
2012$2 billion$1.2 billion$752 million
2013$1.6 billion$1.6 billion-$80 million
2014$1.7 billion$1.4 billion$333 million
2015$1.7 billion$1.3 billion$367 million
2016$1.5 billion$1.8 billion-$328 million
2017$1.9 billion$1.9 billion$17 million
2018$1.9 billion$2.1 billion-$174 million
2019$1.7 billion$1.3 billion$355 million
2020$1.7 billion$1.4 billion$383 million
2021$1.9 billion$1.6 billion$310 million
2022$2.1 billion$2.1 billion$68 million
2023$2.2 billion$2 billion$192 million
2024$4.5 billion$1.9 billion$2.5 billion

What they sell each other

What the Netherlands sells to the United Arab Emirates

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

  1. Cameras and broadcast equipment$341 million · 7.6%
    575 tonnes
  2. Refined petroleum$220 million · 4.9%
    216 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  3. Computers$217 million · 4.8%
    1 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  4. Medical and dental instruments$161 million · 3.6%
    703 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  5. Computer and office machine parts$123 million · 2.7%
    2 thousand tonnes
  6. Turbojets and gas turbines$109 million · 2.4%
    133 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  7. Other plastic articles$99 million · 2.2%
    1 thousand tonnes
  8. Microchips$96 million · 2.1%
    91 tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  9. Chocolate$92 million · 2.1%
    13 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ destinations
  10. Fragrance mixtures$87 million · 2%
    4 thousand tonnes

What the United Arab Emirates sells to the Netherlands

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

  1. Refined petroleum$634 million · 32.6%
    768 thousand tonnes · the United Arab Emirates’ destinations
  2. Cameras and broadcast equipment$479 million · 24.6%
    1 thousand tonnes
  3. New tires$101 million · 5.2%
    16 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ sources
  4. Unwrought aluminum$98 million · 5%
    39 thousand tonnes · the United Arab Emirates’ destinations
  5. Ethers and organic peroxides$43 million · 2.2%
    47 thousand tonnes
  6. Crude petroleum$43 million · 2.2%
    65 thousand tonnes · the United Arab Emirates’ destinations
  7. Turbojets and gas turbines$30 million · 1.5%
    98 tonnes · the Netherlands’ sources
  8. Computer and office machine parts$27 million · 1.4%
    508 tonnes
  9. Perfumes$26 million · 1.3%
    1 thousand tonnes
  10. Cars$26 million · 1.3%
    2 thousand tonnes · the Netherlands’ sources

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Rotterdam to Jebel Ali.

The estimated sea route between Rotterdam and Jebel Ali is 11,380 nautical miles (21,076 km) long: ≈ 26.5–34 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 (11,380 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 (6,466 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$3.4 billion · 52.4%
  2. Air$3.1 billion · 47.6%

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

How much each matters to the other

The United Arab Emirates was the Netherlands’ 34th largest trading partner (0.5% of its trade), and the Netherlands was the United Arab Emirates’ 18th (1%).

The United Arab Emirates in the Netherlands’ trade
0.5%
The United Arab Emirates’ rank among the Netherlands’ partners
34th
The Netherlands in the United Arab Emirates’ trade
1%
The Netherlands’ rank among the United Arab Emirates’ partners
18th

Compare with

Other partners of the Netherlands

Other partners of the United Arab Emirates

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.