The Netherlands imported electric cars (including hybrid vehicles) with a total value of 1.1 billion euros from China in 2023, 13 times more than in 2022. The majority of electric vehicles came from Germany (4.3 billion euros), around 50 percent more than the previous year.
Around two-thirds of electric vehicles imported from China are not destined for the Dutch market. This concerns the quasi-transit trade (foreign-owned transit), which means that goods arrive in the Netherlands but are transported onwards to another country as their final destination. When the transit trade is excluded, the import value was 0.4 billion…
