What does Poland Import?

Hi! All,

I'm interested to what are the thing Poland imports? :)

poland imports lots of things like vodka, machinery, coal and chemicals x :)

I think that's export not import.

I agree.....import = coming into country
export = going out of country

inter alia: cars, Made in China junk, wines, spirits, sound equipment, pop culture...

machinery and transport equipment 38%, intermediate manufactured goods 21%, chemicals 14.8%, minerals, fuels, lubricants, and related materials 9.1% (2003)

Lots of military equipment and aircraft engines. Also, it exports aircraft engines (I know! Right?!)

energy, building supplies, german car radios.


Do you know which company? PZL used to make engines. I don't think anyone is making aircraft engines here now.

Pratt and Whitney also has offices here and I think contracts PZL to make the engines (especially for all those F-16s Poland just bought.)

coal, iron, steel, and machinery :)

haha funny

raw materials, transportation, chemicals and consumer goods

Here you have it all both in Polish and English: stat.gov.pl/cps/rde/xbcr/gus/PUBL_rs_rocz_stat_hanl_zagr_2010.pdf

Poland import structure: Polish Trade 2009 (source GUS)

Here is some information about aircraft engines and other types of engines production in Poland .

As a matter of fact Poland is quite significant producer and world wide exporter of engines . Poland produces a variety of different engines . The mass production dates XIX century . However during the world war II the polish engine production was completely destroyed , a lot of famous polish construction engineers lost their lives during the war or emigrated after the war .

PZL Mielec is a renowned aircraft producer ( not only engine producer )

Nowadays the production line includes :

M28 - passenger and transportation aircraft
M28B BRYZA - special utility aircraft
M18 DROMADER - special utility aircraft

In a cooperation with Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation – PZL Mielec makes parts for UH-60M BLACK HAWK and make complete S70iTM BLACK HAWK exported world wide .

Besides that aircraft production there is a huge production of different types of engines for : cars, ships , army , production enterprises etc.

The most known are : H. Cegielski - Poznań S.A. now named Wärtsilä Switzerland Ltd. in Poznań produces ship engines with capacity of 30000 kW, "PZL-WOLA" S.A. in Warsaw specialises in heavy engines for utility army vehicles, PZL Mielec sp. z o.o. - aircrafts and aircraft parts production, High Combustion Engines Enterprise - Andoria in Andrychow

Polish made engines are installed in such viehicles as : FIAT: Panda, Punto, Idea, Palio, Albea, Doblo, Lancia: Ypsilon, Musa, Opel: Agila, Corsa, Astra III, Tigra Twin Top, Combo Tour, Suzuki: Swift, Ignis, Wagon R+, Subaru: G3X Justy.

Volkswagen is a second largest producer of car engines in Poland

Japanese ISUZU started in 1999 in Tychy a new factory producing 300000 of car engines yearly mounted in Opel: Corsa, Meriva, Astra, Combo Tour oraz Honda Civic.

Toyota has got two production factories in Poland . Toyota Motor Industries Poland started in Jelcz-Laskowce a production of its top of the line engine ZS - 2.2 D-4D.

News and market data about polish market (in English) - polishmarket.com

Poland imports almost all oil it needs and the greatest part of the natural gas it consumes (among many other things)

For those who are interested and want to get more information about aircraft engine production in Poland .

Here is a link to a website concerning polish aircraft industry ( in english too) . There are links to something like 80 - 90 of major and minor companies which are located in east- south of Poland producing equipment for this branch of industry .

dolinalotnicza.pl/pl/93/93/

Import - means buying, export - quite opposite

OMG didn`t know that ...... just read first few posts , someone (a very smart person ) has made a mistake . The real subject is export , lol .