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Tobacco

Poland is one of the largest tobacco producers in the European Union. Our country is the world’s third and Europe’s second exporter of tobacco products. The value of Polish exports in 2019 amounted to over €4.1 billion. Its structure is mainly dominated by cigarettes and processed tobacco.

In 2021, the industry’s exports accounted for 1.5% of Poland’s merchandise exports. In the same year, the current price of tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes exports amounted to over 4.2 billion EUR. Poland’s major partners in this industry, in terms of value of exported goods, are Germany, Italy and Spain.

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Industry definition

The industry includes the following CN codes: 2401 to 2403.

These include, but are not limited to, unprocessed tobacco; tobacco waste, cigars, cigarillos, cigarettes made from tobacco or tobacco substitutes, processed tobacco and processed tobacco substitutes, and others.

Value of industry exports from Poland [EUR]

2018
2019
2020
2021
3 358,21 M Increase of 12% to 2017
3 694,25 M Increase of 10% to 2018
4 277,23 M Increase of 16% to 2019
4 136,53 M Decrease by -3% to 2020
source: Eurostat, Comext

Useful contacts

National Association of the Tobacco Industry

ul. Wiejska 7; 00-480 Warszawa

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