The Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency (NFIA) facilitates direct investments of foreign companies in the Netherlands. Whether developing a first European presence or reconfiguring existing European operations, companies can obtain information, strategic perspective and practical help from the business professionals of the NFIA.

The NFIA has helped hundreds of foreign companies initiate or expand operations in the Netherlands. In all, close to 7000 foreign companies have established operations in the Netherlands.

As a government agency, the NFIA provides information and practical assistance free of charge. All its services are provided on a confidential basis. These include providing insight and data with regard to site selection and logistics strategies; intensive, personal guidance on such matters as available incentives, permit procedures and tax structures. The NFIA introduces corporate investors to a variety of Dutch networks and service suppliers in business, to government authorities at national and regional levels, to academic and private sector consultants, and to others, of relevance to the investment process.

Through its network of worldwide offices the NFIA focuses on (subsidiaries of) companies from North America, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Republic of Ireland, and United Kingdom. The NFIA has offices in The Hague, London, New York, Boston, San Mateo, Chicago, Austin, Atlanta, Tokyo, Osaka, Taipei, Seoul and Hong Kong.

The NFIA is a division of the Dutch ministry of Economic Affairs and an expression of its full commitment to expediting foreign direct investment in the Netherlands.