What Poland buys from Indonesia

What the numbers say

• Direct food imports from Indonesia are still small: the largest line, cashews and coconuts, was €8.6 million in 2025.
• Palm oil grew from €0.1 million in 2021 to €2.8 million in 2025; cocoa butter appeared in 2023 and reached €1.8 million in 2024.
• Shrimp and other crustaceans grew every year, from €0.14 million to €0.78 million.
• These figures count only goods cleared through customs in Poland. Indonesian food cleared in Rotterdam or Hamburg and resold to Poland is counted as Dutch or German trade, so Polish buyers use more than the numbers show, mostly through other EU importers.
• The EU–Indonesia trade agreement (CEPA) is expected to enter into force on 1 January 2027, with lower EU duties on many food products.

Oils & cocoa from Indonesia, 2021–2025

• HS 1511×25.9

  Palm oil

  €2.8 min 2025

  2021: €109 k → 2025: €2.8 m

• HS 1804×2.7

  Cocoa butter, fat and oil

  €1.4 min 2025

  2023: €530 k → 2025: €1.4 m

Border problems: EU food alerts for products from Indonesia

• Most common reasons

  • Mycotoxins53
  • Heavy metals17
  • Pesticide residues11
  • Environmental pollutants9
  • Allergens7

• Products most often stopped

  • Herbs and spices60
  • Fish and fish products29
  • Fruits and vegetables8
  • Nuts and seeds6

• Substances found most often

  • Aflatoxins33
  • Ochratoxin A21
  • Mercury11

• Who reported them

  • Netherlands56
  • Germany16
  • Italy12
  • Spain7
  • France6

• What this means for your shipment

  Almost half of the problems are spices, mostly aflatoxins and ochratoxin A from drying and storage. For fish, mercury. Control moisture and storage, and test for mycotoxins before every 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.