The Imports of Processed Fruit Products From Ukraine to the EU Member States After Trade Liberalization in 2022

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The imports of frozen blackcurrants to the EU Member States before and after the liberalization of trade with Ukraine (kg)

Item	Average annual imports of frozen blackcurrants from Ukraine		Import between June and May		Changes in imports (Lib–Ref)/Ref (%)
	Reference period	Liberalization period	2022/2023 year	2023/2024 year
Poland	51,433	623,045	1,188,863	57,226	1111
Germany	20,460	143,205	283,890	2,520	600
Czechia	16,345	114,328	198,415	30,240	599
Romania	10,080	52,080	104,160	0	417
Austria	10,676	16,440	20,000	12,880	54
Netherlands	0	10,125	20,250	0	n/a
Lithuania	20,080	10,000	20,000	0	–50
Italy	0	5,250	10,500	0	n/a
Latvia	1,400	5,125	8,250	2,000	266%
Bułgaria	0	3,900	6,000	1,800	n/a
Slovakia	0	3,175	0	6,350	n/a
Portugal	0	2,185	0	4,370	n/a
Greece	0	292	583	0	n/a
EU-27	140,179	989,149	1,860,911	117,386	–100

Imports of frozen strawberries (kg) to the EU Member States before and after the liberalization of trade with Ukraine (kg)

Item	Average annual imports of frozen strawberries from Ukraine		Import between June and May		Changes in imports (Lib–Ref)/Ref (%)
	Reference period	Liberalization period	2022/2023 year	2023/2024 year
Poland	2,357,762	2,246,510	2,895,056	1,597,964	–5
Czechia	40,814	319,144	189,639	448,648	682
Austria	240,477	305,410	206,600	404,220	27
Germany	181,089	225,685	262,970	188,400	25
Netherlands	88,608	127,278	103,573	150,983	44
Italy	50,315	94,950	136,480	53,420	89
Portugal	0	84,118	0	84,118	n/a
Belgium	193,175	48,678	84,236	13,120	–75
Lithuania	64,238	39,563	23,110	56,015	–38
France	143,458	31,715	40,710	22,720	–78
Slovakia	0	20,160	0	20,160	n/a
Bułgaria	552	14,237	11,638	16,836	2,479
Romania	489	4,491	8,982	0	819
Estonia	12,900	0	0	0	–100
Hungary	7,520	0	0	0	–100
EU-27	3,398,609	3,509,799	3,962,994	3,056,604	3

Changes in the imports of selected fruit products from Poland to other EU Member States after the liberalization of trade with Ukraine in 2022

Item	Poland’s share in the imports			The volume of import from Poland (kg)			Change in imports from Poland in relations to reference period
	Reference period (%)	2022/2023 (%)	2023/2024 (%)	Reference period (%)	2022/2023	2023/2024	2022/2023 (%)	2023/2024 (%)
Apple juice concentrate
Austria	25	35	12	145,330	196,804	61,982	35	–57
Germany	44	46	42	737,984	592,056	522,978	–20	–29
Netherlands	22	51	33	152,163	319,510	167,695	110	10
Frozen raspberries
Germany	27	29	27	193,767	158,658	177,915	–18	–8
France	10	16	13	30,856	42,648	39,167	38	27
Belgium	18	16	18	33,349	22,734	24,748	–32	–26
Austria	3	9	7	5,647	8,515	11,542	51	104
Netherlands	34	20	22	46,546	14,992	18,317	–68	–61
Frozen strawberries
Germany	32	18	18	349,579	162,315	153,014	–54	–56
France	17	13	14	100,022	77,288	96,101	–23	–4
Netherlands	22	10	9	123,426	58,308	45,404	–53	–63
Belgium	8	23	11	27,177	113,554	42,367	318	56
Frozen blackcurrants
Germany	87	65	78	98,486	60,593	64,584	–38	–34
Netherlands	90	54	77	33,119	18,962	31,964	–43	–3
Belgium	74	78	79	23,282	17,197	17,870	–26	–23
France	56	35	33	8,187	6,476	6,422	–21	–22
Austria	51	54	38	5,030	5,469	4,148	9	–18
Frozen sour cherries
Germany	49	47	51	252,640	195,434	188,953	–23	–25
Netherlands	42	28	54	32,008	19164	42,061	–40	31
Austria	8	21	22	6,383	12,857	15,500	101	143
France	38	42	36	25,706	28,144	29,488	9	15
Belgium	23	16	18	15,399	9,154	9,398	–41	–39

The imports of frozen sour cherries to the EU Member States before and after the liberalization of trade with Ukraine (kg)

Item	Average annual imports of frozen sour cherries from Ukraine		Import between June and May		Changes in imports (Lib–Ref)/Ref (%)
	Reference period	Liberalization period	2022/2023 year	2023/2024 year
Czechia	100	82,630	164,000	1,260	82,530
Austria	247,169	80,000	160,000	0	–68
Poland	637,928	77,580	155,155	4	–88
Bułgaria	0	38,730	33,990	43,470	n/a
Germany	0	20,000	40,000	0	n/a
Netherlands	20,147	10,945	21,890	0	–46
Estonia	0	4,410	8,820	0	n/a
Romania	0	2,500	5,000	0	n/a
Latvia	0	1,000	0	2,000	n/a
Italy	3,000	630	1,260	0	–79
EU-27	911,356	318,425	590,115	46,734	–65

The imports of frozen raspberries to the EU Member States before and after the liberalization of trade with Ukraine (kg)

Item	Average annual imports of frozen raspberries from Ukraine		Import between June and May		Changes in imports (Lib–Ref)/Ref (%)
	Reference period	Liberalization period	2022/2023 year	2023/2024 year
Poland	7,930,341	22,117,079	25,767,959	18,466,198	179
Germany	1,068,410	5,485,100	2,323,420	8,646,780	413
Czechia	809,072	4,226,406	3,060,484	5,392,327	422
Lithuania	653,345	1,988,914	1,978,495	1,999,333	204
Austria	832,902	1,452,627	758,925	2,146,328	74
Italy	180,708	1,376,083	927,466	1,824,700	661
Portugal	0	1,328,980	0	2,657,959	n/a
Belgium	211,778	914,162	622,747	1,205,577	332
France	368,766	618,813	235,250	1,002,375	68
Netherlands	149,541	390,439	353,072	427,806	161
Bulgaria	0	327,570	322,720	332,420	n/a
Estonia	48,138	130,095	88,620	171,570	170
Slovakia	0	126,240	41,790	210,689	n/a
Denmark	10,000	94,804	19,568	170,040	848
Slovenia	0	77,009	40,302	113,715	n/a
Romania	7,162	76,268	44,336	108,200	965
Latvia	64,900	66,065	52,130	80,000	2
Hungary	44,540	51,075	95,850	6,300	15
Spain	0	13,120	0	26,240	n/a
Sweden	0	10,125	0	20,250	n/a
Finland	0	10,000	20,000	0	n/a
Greece	0	259	518	0	n/a
EU-27	12,395,876	40,881,230	36,753,652	45,008,807	230

The imports of apple juice concentrate (AJC) from Ukraine to the EU Member States before and after the introduction of trade liberalization in 2022 (kg)

Item	Average annual imports of AJC from Ukraine		Import between June and May		Changes in imports (Lib–Ref)/Ref (%)
	Reference period	Liberalization period	2022/2023 year	2023/2024 year
Poland	3,458,870	23,954,115	34,058,957	13,849,273	593
Germany	1,494,431	13,917,044	12,722,592	15,111,495	831
Austria	0	11,052,690	9,837,600	12,267,780	n/a
Netherlands	1,036,329	2,220,187	1,629,945	2,810,429	114
Estonia	0	5,500	11,000	0	n/a
Bulgaria	0	38,389	10,026	66,752	n/a
Lithuania	0	13,880	2,430	25,330	n/a
Spain	0	343,095	130	686,060	n/a
France	0	120,950	0	241,900	n/a
Finland	0	37,385	0	74,770	n/a
Denmark	0	36,750	0	73,500	n/a
Hungary	0	22,000	0	44,000	n/a
Czechia	0	11,500	0	23,000	n/a
Slovakia	0	10,000	0	20,000	n/a
EU-27	5,989,629	51,771,985	58,272,680	45,271,289	764