Imports into the Netherlands from China in Q2 2026: data brief
Imports into the Netherlands from China were €28.86bn in Q2 2026, up 7.5% (€2.02bn) on Q2 2025.
Top 3 rising headings
- Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the… (HS 8703): €143m, up 286.5% from €37m
- Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled,… (HS 1518): €173m, up 175.2% from €63m
- Discs, tapes, solid-state non-volatile storage devices, smart cards… (HS 8523): €215m, up 165.9% from €81m
Top 3 falling headings
- Products containing tobacco, reconstituted tobacco, nicotine, or… (HS 2404): €20m, down 55.6% from €45m
- Groundnuts, whether or not shelled or broken (HS 1202): €10m, down 42.4% from €18m
- Wadding, gauze, bandages and the like (HS 3005): €23m, down 40.9% from €38m
Headings (HS4) worth at least €10m in both quarters.
Among these six headings, value per kg runs from €1.06 for Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled,… to €496.56 for Discs, tapes, solid-state non-volatile storage devices, smart cards… Why € per kg matters →
Cite as: Cambridge China Bridge, "China–Netherlands Trade Pulse", Q2 2026, https://camchinabridge.co.uk/china-eu-trade-pulse/netherlands/briefs/2026-q2/. Source: Eurostat (Comext, DS-045409); quarterly totals, changes and value per kg calculated by Cambridge China Bridge. Open data:https://github.com/bonoxu/camchinabridge-open-data
Method and sources
- Source: Eurostat, Comext database, dataset DS-045409 (EU trade since 1988 by HS2-4-6 and CN8): reporter the Netherlands, partner China, imports, through Eurostat's free dissemination API.
- Values are in euros as Eurostat publishes them. Quarterly totals, changes on a year earlier, rankings and value per kg are calculated by Cambridge China Bridge from the monthly figures. Chapters 99 (other products) and 00 (confidential totals) are excluded.
- Eurostat revises recent months; the page is rebuilt monthly and always shows the latest figures Eurostat has published.
- Weight-based € per kg ranks categories; it does not measure freight cost directly, which depends on volume.
Source: Eurostat. Re-use of Eurostat data is authorised provided the source is acknowledged (Eurostat copyright notice). The figures on this page are aggregated and calculated from Eurostat's monthly data by Cambridge China Bridge. Journalists and researchers may quote them with a link to this page.