Creative industries - United States

This is a peer-to-peer relationship built on massive economic impact. Dutch companies are among the top investors in the United States, supporting more than 1 million American jobs in manufacturing, logistics, finance, and agriculture.

At the same time, American businesses treat the Netherlands as their premier, highly innovative gateway to the European market, leveraging world-class infrastructure and a deeply skilled workforce. 

But working across America is more than trade figures and agreements. It also rests on the every day ties between Dutch and American communities: students crossing the Atlantic for a semester, university partnerships that put researchers on both sides of the ocean into the same labs and local initiatives that bring Dutch and American classrooms, philanthropic organizations and cultural institutions into direct contact with one another. These connections rarely make headlines, but they are the fabric of our friendship.

The strongest partnerships aren’t the ones without disagreement, they’re the ones that talk it through.

They lean on a foundation of trust, reliability, and candid conversation. That’s what we do: listen harder, explain more and stay at the table.

In a world reshaped by shifting geopolitics and swift tech transitions, the Netherlands brings a distinct advantage to the table. We offer a frank, direct European perspective alongside practical problem-solving. We don’t sit by and watch global shifts happen; we work together to strengthen our shared security and prosperity.