Belgium is hot on the heels of the Netherlands with beer export | Financial

However, the Netherlands is still the largest exporter of beer in the European Union. Last year, more than €2 billion in beer was exported, mainly to the United States, of which €121 million was alcohol-free beer.

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In every year of this century, the Netherlands was the largest exporter of alcoholic beer in the EU, but the difference with Belgium is getting smaller. The export value of beer is 75 percent higher than in 2000. Germany and France are the third and fourth exporters of alcoholic beer in the EU.

Worldwide there is one country that exports considerably more alcoholic beer than the Netherlands and that is Mexico. Especially in the last four years, Mexican beer exports have exploded and the country now exports twice as much beer as the Netherlands. The Netherlands is the second largest beer exporter in the world after Mexico.

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