Netherlands: value import and export orchids 2021

Every year, a large amount of orchids is exported from the Netherlands to other countries. In the last decade, the Dutch export value of orchids far outnumbered the country's import value. In 2021, orchid export trade was valued at approximately 68.9 million euros. By comparison, the import value was worth just over four million euros. The total value of trees, plants and flowers exported from the Netherlands in 2021 was around 12 billion euros.

 Exporting tulips 

  The Netherlands is well-known for producing flowers, but orchids are by no means the country’s most important flowery export product. The trade in tulips and tulip bulbs, for example, is much more important to the country. In 2021, the value of tulip bulb exports alone was estimated at over 250 million euros.

Decline in flower growing companies

Growing flowers was the responsibility of around 900 flower growing companies in the Netherlands. In the last decade, however, the number of flowers growing companies in the country decreased significantly. In 2007, there were nearly 2,100 flower producers. A decade later, less than half of these producers was left.

Value of the import and export of orchids in the Netherlands from 2008 to 2021 (in thousand euros)

Characteristic	Import value	Export value
2021	4,190	68,875
2020	3,927	57,686
2019	5,144	69,368
2018	2,274	77,945
2017	2,258	71,161
2016	2,202	64,930
2015	2,404	64,827
2014	5,648	63,243
2013	5,855	70,338
2012	5,885	87,263
2011	6,459	82,563
2010	5,404	77,574
2009	5,533	78,174
2008	7,677	98,662

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Release date

January 2023

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Region

Netherlands

Survey time period

2008 to 2021

Supplementary notes

Import value includes shipping costs and insurance costs to the Dutch border (in the case of EU imports) or the EU border (in the case of non-EU imports). Imports include all goods imported for use or consumption in the Netherlands over which national taxes and import levies are paid. This includes temporarily imported goods of non-residents processed under contract in the Netherlands and goods imported from non-EU countries entering the Netherlands via warehouses and re-exports.

Export value includes shipping costs and insurance costs to the Dutch border. Exports include goods manufactured in the Netherlands and re-exports and temporarily exported goods of residents processed under contract abroad.

The figures include flowers, cut flowers and flower buds, and flowers suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes.

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