Poland’s Extra-EU Trade After the EU Accession
Journal: Siyasal Journal of Political Sciences
Year: 2022

When Poland joined the European Union (EU) on May 1, 2004, it transferred its national competences in the field of external trade policy to the EU institutions. As a result, on the one hand, as of that date Poland may neither change duties on goods imported from outside of the EU, nor may it conclude trade agreements with third countries. Nowadays, Poland’s intra-EU trade has reached ca. 65-75% of its total foreign trade at the expense of the exchange with the rest of the world. Although the afo