The GDCh has concluded bilateral cooperation agreements with the following foreign chemical societies, which define the cooperation and grant members of both societies certain benefits:
Agreements exist with the following societies (in historical order):
- Société Française de Chimie (SFC, France)
- Koninklijke Nederlandse Chemische Vereniging (KNCV, Netherlands)
- Polskie Towarzystwo Chemiczne (PTCh, Poland)
- Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft (SCG, Switzerland)
- Real Sociedad Española de Química (RSEQ, Spain)
- Société Royale de Chimie (SRC, Belgium)
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC, United Kingdom)
- American Chemical Society (ACS, USA)
- Korean Chemical Society (KCS, Korea)
- Chinese Chemical Society (CCS, China)
- Israel Chemical Society (ICS, Israel)
- Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI, Australia)
- Singapore National Institute of Chemistry (SNIC, Singapore)
- Austrian Chemical Society (GÖCH, Austria)
- Società Chimica Italiana (SCI, Italy)