EUR 3.8 bn trade surplus for Poland in first seven months of 2024: stats office

Poland posted a foreign trade surplus of around EUR 3.8 billion in the first seven months of this year, the country’s statistics office reported on Friday.

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The country’s exports from the beginning of January to the end of July totaled EUR 202.4 billion, while imports were worth EUR 198.6 billion, the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency said.

It added that Poland's exports from January to July decreased by 2.5 percent in euro terms at current prices compared with the first seven months of 2023, while imports fell by 0.9 percent year on year.

Nadwyżka w obrotach towarowych handlu zagranicznego po lipcu wyniosła 3,8 mld euro - GUS https://t.co/2f3DuvV8dB

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Poland’s largest export markets in the first seven months of this year 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-July 2024 in PLN was lower year-on-year: #exports by 8.8%, while #imports by 7.3%.https://t.co/Vg30KByuQt#StatisticsPoland #statistics #ForeignTrade #Poland pic.twitter.com/XRDeuJoeSv

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) September 13, 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