According to Central Statistical Office of Poland in the time during I-X 2015, export of machinery and mechanical appliances, electrical and electrotechnical equipment comprised – 24.66% of all export and contributed to it as the biggest export industry. Other in percentage big groups of products exported from Poland:
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– Transport equipment – 14.46%
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– Base metals and articles thereof – 10.19%
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– Plastics and rubber and articles thereof – 7.02%
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– Products of the chemical industry – 6.63%
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– Prepared foodstuffs 6.18%
Animal products comprised 3.99%, vegetable products 2,66% of all the export. Moreover, the value of Polish confectionery exports increased by more than 10% in 2015 to a record level of nearly PLN 6.7 billion.
Polish sweets exports are mainly driven by growing chocolate sales, a representative of confectionary producers association Polbisco, Marek Przezdzierak said.
Polish sweets producers were forced to increase export due to a difficult situation on the domestic market, where we have seen a decline in sales of sweets for three years – explains the director of sales and marketing Lotte Wedel, Maciej Herman. This is due to changes in eating habits of Poles and higher commodity prices, especially cocoa.
The biggest group of imported products in the time period I-X 2015 comprised as well machinery and mechanical appliences, electrical and electromechanical equipment – 25,61%
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– Transport equipment – 11.12%
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– Base metals and articles thereof – 10.68%
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– Products of the chemical industry – 9.75%
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– Mineral products – 8.30%
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– Plastics and rubber and articles thereof – 7.64%
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– Textiles and textile articles – 4.95%
Animal products – 2.52%, vegetable products – 2.27% and prepared foodstuffs – 3.78%.
Other data is available on Central Statistical Office of Poland’s (GUS) site: http://swaid.stat.gov.pl/EN/dashboards_HZ/Raporty_predefiniowane/Raport_2.aspx
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