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Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency (NFIA), Regional Development Agencies, Municipalities, Port and Airport Authorities, Netherlands Government, US Government, Government of Canada, EU Government

Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency (NFIA)

Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency (NFIA) www.nfia.com - the NFIA can advise and help your company launch your pan-European operations with a strategic Netherlands location. Our free, confidential services speed your company through the search process. (a division of the Ministry of Economic Affairs)

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Regional Development Agencies

• Development Agency East Netherlands www.oostnv.com
• Development Agency Flevoland (OMFL) www.omfl.nl
• Industriebank LIOF Limburg www.liof.nl
• Investment & Development Company for the Northern Netherlands www.nvnom.eu
• Noord-Brabant Development Agency (BOM) www.foreigninvestments.eu
• Utrecht Foreign Investment Office www.investinutrecht.com
• West Holland Foreign Investment Agency (Greater The Hague Region: The Hague, Leiden, Delft, Zoetermeer) www.wfia.nl

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Municipalities 

• Amsterdaminbusiness (a cooperation between the foreign investment agencies of the City of Amsterdam, Almere, Amstelveen and Haarlemmermeer) www.iamsterdam.com/en/business
• Amsterdam Area Partners (partnership between eleven organizations (from both private and public sectors) that either own, or have an investment in, land and facilities surrounding Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and the City of Amsterdam) www.aaarea.nl
• Rotterdam Development Corporation http://www.obr.rotterdam.nl/smartsite.dws?id=745003
• Brabant Stad (five-city alliance in province of North Brabant: Breda, Eindhoven, Helmond, 's Hertogenbosch, Tilburg) www.foreigninvestments.eu
• Almere Foreign Investment Agency www.almere.nl

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Port and Airport Authorities

• Port of Rotterdam www.portofrotterdam.com
• Amsterdam Port Authority www.amsterdamports.nl
• Zeeland Seaports www.zeeland-seaports.com
• Groningen Seaports www.groningen-seaports.com
• Port of Moerdijk www.havenvanmoerdijk.nl/en/port.htm
• Amsterdam Schiphol Airport www.schiphol.nl
• Eindhoven Airport www.eindhovenairport.com
• Rotterdam Airport www.rotterdam-airport.nl/?setlanguage=en
• Maastrich Aachen Airport www.maa.nl/en/
• Groningen Airport Eelde www.gae.nl/index.cfm?&language=en

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Netherlands Government

• Ministry of Economic Affairs www.ez.nl/content.jsp?objectid=140727
• Netherlands Embassy Washington DC www.netherlands-embassy.org
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs www.minbuza.nl/english
• EVD (Netherlands Foreign Trade Agency)www.evd.nl and www.hollandtrade.com
• Statistics Netherlands (CBS) www.cbs.nl/en-gb/
• Ministry of Finance http://www.minfin.nl/english
• Nederlandse Belastingdienst (Netherlands Tax Department) www.belastingdienst.nl/english
• Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment http://english.szw.nl
• UWV Uitvoering Werknemersverzekeringen (National Institute for Social Security) www.uwv.nl
• Arbo Platform Nederland (Netherlands Risk Management Service) www.arbo.nl/algemeen/apnlen/FrontPage
• Center for Work and Income (CWI) www.werk.nl (an independent administrative body (ZBO) that works on assignment from the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment)
• Ministry of Justice www.justitie.nl/english
• Immigratie en Naturalisatie Dienst (IND) (Immigration and Naturalization Service, part of the Ministry of Justice) www.ind.nl/EN/
• Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management www.verkeerenwaterstaat.nl/english

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US Government 

• US Commercial Service www.buyusa.gov/netherlands/en/ or www.buyusa.nl including 'Doing Business in the Netherlands' - a country commercial guide for US companies
• US Embassy in the Netherlands www.netherlands.usembassy.gov

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Government of Canada 

• Canadian Embassy in the Hague www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/canada-europa/netherlands
• Commercial Section Canadian Embassy the Hague www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/canada%2Deuropa/netherlands/embassy5-1ser-en.asp
• International Trade Canada - Trade Commissioner Service www.infoexport.gc.ca/ie-en/Office.jsp?oid=23

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EU Government 

• European Labor Agency (EURES) www.eures-jobs.com

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