Netherlands - Chicago Business Facts

60 Netherlands-based firms at 350 locations in greater Chicago:

  • Wolters Kluwer (CCH HQ), Unilever, Royal Ahold…

More than 80 Chicago-area companies in the Netherlands

  • Abbott, Aon, ITW, Sara Lee…

2010 Imports to the Chicago Customs District

  • Total: US$4.5 billion

Top Import Categories:

  • Industrial Machinery, Including Computers 
  • Organic Chemicals
  • Electric Machinery; Sound Equip.; TV Equip.

2010 Exports from the Chicago Customs District

  • Total: US$1.5 billion

Top Export Categories:

  • Industrial Machinery, Including Computers
  • Aircrafts and Aircraft Parts
  • Optic, Photo, Medical or Surgical Instruments

Dutch company expansion in Chicago:

  • IMC Trading, 2009 
  • KLM air cargo, 2009 
  • Mittal Steel USA HQ, 2005 (Netherlands-based at the time), now ArcelorMittal of Luxembourg

Consulate General of the Netherlands; Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency, Chicago; Dutch Chicago Business Exchange of the Netherlands-America Foundation

Tul(i)p Dutch Language School (Naperville); Netherlands Club of Chicago

More than 100,000 Dutch-Americans in the Chicago area (2000 Census)