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What Poland buys from India
Official EU customs statistics, put in one table: which food products from India Polish importers already buy, how much, and what is growing. Updated when Eurostat publishes new data.
What the numbers say
- Coffee extracts and instant coffee doubled, from €19.8 million in 2021 to €41.6 million in 2025: the largest of the lines below.
- Shrimp reached €14.3 million in 2025, the highest in five years. Rice almost tripled in one year, from €2.4 million in 2024 to €6.7 million.
- Tea stays steady at €12–19 million a year. Roasted and green coffee grew four times, from €1.3 million to €5.2 million.
- India has far more EU food alerts than the other countries here: 1,968 in 2020–2025, mostly pesticide residues. Border checks are the main risk, not demand.
- The EU and India concluded their trade agreement on 27 January 2026. It lowers EU duties on tea, spices, fish and processed foods (rice, sugar and dairy are excluded). Signing is expected in late 2026, then ratification.
Oils & cocoa from India, 2021–2025
| Product | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change | Trend |
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Border problems: EU food alerts for products from India
Most common reasons
Products most often stopped
Substances found most often
Who reported them
What this means for your shipment
Ethylene oxide alone caused 619 alerts; nuts and seeds (including sesame), spices and food supplements are the most affected groups. Several Indian foods are on the EU list of products with more frequent border checks (Implementing Regulation 2019/1793). Test every lot in an accredited lab and send the report with the shipment.
Trade: Eurostat Comext, dataset DS-045409 (EU trade since 1988 by HS2-4-6 and CN8), Poland as reporter, imports, value in euros, annual. Country = country of origin. Retrieved 2026-10-27. Eurostat database. Goods cleared through customs in another EU country and then shipped to Poland count as that country’s trade, so real use in Poland is higher. Change compares 2025 with the first year above €100,000.
Border alerts: RASFF Window (European Commission), food notifications by country of origin, compiled by RASFF Trends (rasff.fruit-risk.com), licence CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-10-27. RASFF Trends. Counts depend on how actively each EU country checks, so read them next to trade volumes.
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