Foreign trade in agri-food products in Polish statistics

Tuesday, 20 October, 2026 Food From Poland 49/2026
Observing the turnover of goods in Polish foreign trade over the years, it can be noticed that Polish exports of agri-food products are holding strong, constituting about 15% of the share in exports (over 9% in imports).
In 2025, according to final data, exports of these goods amounted to PLN 249.2 billion, and imports to PLN 165.7 billion. The positive balance was PLN 83.6 billion. Compared to 2024, exports increased by 7.3% and imports by 7.8%, while compared to 2020 data, both exports and imports increased by approximately 64 pp.

Poland exported most agri-food products to developed countries (approx. 85%), including the European Union (over 70%), developing countries (approx. 9%) and Central and Eastern Europe (3.8%).

In 2025, Poland exported agri-food products to 199 countries, above all European Union countries such as Germany, France, the Netherlands, Czechia, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Romania, and Belgium. The United Kingdom was the first non-EU country in second place, followed by Ukraine (14th), the United States (17th), and Türkiye (19th) among the main trading partners for agri-food products.

In 2025, the largest value of Polish exports were prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes (PLN 135.1 billion), live animals; animal products (PLN 73.8 billion), vegetable products (PLN 34.8 billion) oraz fats and oils (PLN 5.5 billion).

Tobacco and industrial tobacco substitutes; processed cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastry and various processed foods accounted for almost fifty percent of the export of prepared foodstuffs, which Poland supplied mainly to Germany, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom and France.

Meanwhile, exports of live animals and animal products accounted for almost 30% of the agri-food market. The largest exports from Poland included meat and edible offal, domestic poultry of the Gallus Domesticus species, ducks, geese, turkeys, and guinea fowl, fresh, chilled, or frozen, totaling PLN 22.8 billion. Compared to 2020, a dynamic increase of 118.1 pp was observed in the above-mentioned goods, with the main recipients being countries such as Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Ghana.

The share of vegetable products in 2025 was 14.0%, dominated by edible fruits and nuts, cereals, coffee, tea, mate (paraguayan tea), and spices, which accounted for over 20%, and vegetables (13%). We delivered goods to Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Ukraine, and Czechia.
The smallest share of the agri-food market, just over 2%, was held by fats and oils. Besides Germany, they were exported to the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Hungary, and Czechia. In this case, margarine was the dominant product.

Aldona B. Matejak
Head of the Foreign Trade Unit in the Prices and Services Department at the Statistics Poland




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