Commercial and Economic Relations between Türkiye and the Netherlands

In 2023, bilateral trade volume in goods and services stood at 12 billion 294 million USD, with Turkish exports at 7 billion 873 million USD and imports at 4 billion 421 million USD. In 2024, our bilateral trade volume was 13 billion 588 million USD (Turkish exports: 8 billion 568 million USD, our imports from the Netherlands are 5 billion 20 million USD).

Main items of Türkiye’s exports to the Netherlands are vehicles for transporting goods, cars, station wagons, race cars and textiles, whilst main items of Türkiye’s imports from the Netherlands are iron and steel, scrap, polyacetals, other polyathers, epoxide, alkyd resins, oils obtained from petroleum and bituminous minerals, tractors.

In the period of 2005-2024, the Netherlands’ direct investment to our country reached 30 billion 207 million Dollars. The Netherlands maintains its title as the country with the highest investment. In the 2005-2024 period, the amount of direct investment from Türkiye to the Netherlands reached 19 billion 887 million Dollars.

A total of 3022 companies and 40 liaison offices of Dutch origin operate in our country.

The number of companies established by business people of Turkish origin in the Netherlands is around 23 thousand. With investments of roughly 6 billion Euros, these entrepreneurs employ around 80,000 people and generate a turnover of around 8 billion Euros.

In 2023, 1.232.220 Dutch tourists visited Türkiye. In 2024, the number of tourists reached 1.303.262.