EUR 4.6 bn trade surplus for Poland in H1 2024: stats office

Poland posted a foreign trade surplus of around EUR 4.6 billion in the first half of this year, the country’s statistics office has reported.

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The country’s exports from the beginning of January to the end of June totaled EUR 173.9 billion, while imports were worth EUR 169.3 billion, the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency said.

It added that Poland's exports in the first six months of 2024 decreased by 3.3 percent in euro terms at current prices compared with the first half of 2023, while imports fell by 2.1 percent year on year.

Nadwyżka w obrotach towarowych handlu zagranicznego po czerwcu wyniosła 4,6 mld euro - GUS https://t.co/AfKGhtNYz1

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Poland’s largest export markets in the first half of 2024 were Germany, France and the Czech Republic, while Germany, China and the United States were the country’s largest import markets, data showed.

Foreign trade turnover in January-June 2024 in PLN was lower year-on-year: #exports by 10,2%, while #imports by 9,1%.https://t.co/NmffzJx3oT#StatisticsPoland #statistics #ForeignTrade #Poland pic.twitter.com/NAehhO8lwP

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) August 14, 2024

Poland ended last year with a foreign trade surplus of around EUR 9.8 billion, according to Statistics Poland.

Poland’s exports totaled EUR 353.1 billion in 2023 as a whole, while imports were worth EUR 343.3 billion, the statistics agency said at the end of July.

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Source: PAP, stat.gov.pl