This article provides a general overview of the trade in agricultural products for the last 5 years between the Netherlands and the three countries that fall under the working scope of LAN Bogota: Colombia, Peru and Ecuador, also called the Andean countries. All three countries are an important exporter of agricultural products to the Netherlands (and Europe) and have a substantial trade surplus with the Netherlands.
The majority of the agricultural export products from these Andean countries to the Netherlands are quite similar, namely fruits, cocoa and coffee and - in the case of Colombia and Ecuador - also flowers . Whereas the most exported agricultural products from the Netherlands to these three markets are bulbs, young plants and seeds in the case of Colombia and Ecuador as well as preparations of food and vegetables.
Colombia reached its highest export value over this 5 year period in 2019 with EUR 527 mln which represents 39% of its total export to the Netherlands.
Fruits such as bananas and hass avocado - the Netherlands being the point of entry of almost 50% of the Colombian hass avocado exports (Agronegocios, 2019) - palm oil, flowers and in a smaller value coffee, sugar and cocoa are accountable for the majority of the Colombian agricultural exports.
Looking more in detail at the Ecuadorian exports, Ecuador is the world's largest exporter of bananas, and it is one of the main export products to the Netherlands, along with flowers, canned tuna, cocoa and frozen shrimps. In total, its agricultural exports to the Netherlands for 2019 were EUR 613 mln, which amounts to 99% of total exports from Ecuador to The Netherlands.
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