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Foreign Trade and Investment Opportunities in Turkey

Turkey - Netherlands Foreign Trade

The Netherlands has always been among the top trade partners of Turkey. The exports directed to the Netherlands ranked 9 th both in 2006 and 2007 in the total Turkish exports. Neverthless it has ranked 11th in 2008 in total Turkish exports with a value of about US $ 3.1 billion. On the other hand, the imports from the Netherlands ranked 17th in the total imports of Turkey at the same year and realized as nearly US $ 3.0 billion.
The foreign trade balance with the Netherlands has improved in favor of Turkey starting from 2004 and this trend continued so far.  While a trade surplus of US $ 234 million had been recorded in 2004, it amounted at US $ 395 million and US$ 361 in 2006 and 2007, respectively. It has been realized as US $ 64 by the end of 2008.

Turkey - Netherlands Foreign Trade by Years
Unit : Million US $

 

2003

Change %

2004

Change %

2005

Change %

2006

Change %

2007

Change %

2008

Change %

Exports

1 520

44

2 136

41

2 465

15

2 532

3

3 015

19

3 139

4

Imports

1 663

25

1 902

14

2 147

13

2 137

-

2 654

24

3 056

15

Balance

-113

-

+234

-

+318

-

+395

-

+361

-

+64

-

Source: Turkish Undersecretariat for Foreign Trade

 


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