{"id":27350,"date":"2026-10-23T04:11:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T03:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/?p=27350"},"modified":"2026-10-23T04:11:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T03:11:44","slug":"poland-india-double-trade-2030-new-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/2026\/10\/23\/poland-india-double-trade-2030-new-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Warsaw bets on an EU-India deal to close its trade gap with India"},"content":{"rendered":"<section aria-labelledby=\"hpd-nfnmyipv-inrtzyj-hlesdml-zofjqh\" class=\"auk-zvimcvi-inrtzyj\" lang=\"en\">\n<h2 id=\"hpd-nfnmyipv-inrtzyj-hlesdml-zofjqh\">In brief<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Poland and India want to double bilateral trade by 2030 after talks between their prime ministers in New Delhi.<\/li>\n<li>Trade now stands at just over $6 billion, with Poland importing far more than it sells.<\/li>\n<li>Warsaw is counting on an EU-India trade deal expected to be signed in December.<\/li>\n<li>Mining, shipbuilding, energy, space and defence are among the priority sectors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<p>The prime ministers of Poland and India agreed in New Delhi on Thursday, 22 October, to aim for a doubling of bilateral trade by 2030, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/notesfrompoland.com\/2026\/10\/22\/poland-and-india-aim-to-double-trade-by-2030-as-pms-meet-in-new-delhi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Notes from Poland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Tusk\u2019s visit to India is the first undertaken by a Polish head of government in 16 years. It comes after relations were raised to the level of a strategic partnership when Narendra Modi traveled to Poland two years ago, a trip that no Indian prime minister had made for nearly five decades. Modi said that visit had helped the relationship to \u201cgain speed over the last two years\u201d. According to Tusk, the two leaders looked back at what their joint work has achieved to date and fixed priorities for the years ahead, among them closer economic, investment and technological ties.<\/p>\n<p>Both countries have economies that are expanding quickly. This year Poland is forecast to grow by 3.5% of GDP, which puts it in second place within the European Union for pace, whereas India is projected to see growth of 7%. \u201cThe economic strength of both countries offers a wealth of opportunities for strategic partnership,\u201d Modi said.<\/p>\n<h2>A $6bn baseline with a wide gap<\/h2>\n<p>Finance minister Andrzej Doma\u0144ski, who travelled with Tusk, put the starting point plainly: \u201cToday, trade between Poland and India totals just over $6 billion,\u201d he said. The goal therefore implies a total of more than $12 billion within a few years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"auk-kmrcibp\">\n<div class=\"auk-fsnsbv\"><strong class=\"auk-fsnsbv__fvtkh\">$6<span class=\"auk-fsnsbv__wmbpnjn\">bn+<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"auk-fsnsbv__ppkniutc\">total Polish-Indian trade today<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"auk-fsnsbv\"><strong class=\"auk-fsnsbv__fvtkh\">\u20ac1.4<span class=\"auk-fsnsbv__wmbpnjn\">bn<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"auk-fsnsbv__ppkniutc\">Polish exports to India last year<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"auk-fsnsbv\"><strong class=\"auk-fsnsbv__fvtkh\">\u20ac4.3<span class=\"auk-fsnsbv__wmbpnjn\">bn<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"auk-fsnsbv__ppkniutc\">Polish imports from India last year<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The balance is lopsided. Poland\u2019s main exports to India last year were machinery, mineral products and metals, while it bought textiles, machinery and metals. Doma\u0144ski acknowledged the imbalance: \u201cit is no secret that we have a significant trade deficit with India\u201d. He added that the conditions for growth are very favourable.<\/p>\n<h2>The EU-India deal and a large business delegation<\/h2>\n<p>Warsaw counts on an EU-India trade agreement, scheduled for signature in December, to provide the lift. The deal aims to abolish or reduce customs duties on products that make up 96.6% of what the EU exports, by value, to India. Tusk said Poland intends to take full advantage of the openings this creates, and its ambition is to be \u201cIndia\u2019s gateway to Europe\u201d. The signature is still anticipated rather than completed, and Modi\u2019s confidence that the common objective will be reached amounts to a political expectation.<\/p>\n<p>The office of the Polish prime minister states that the agreement might also boost Polish investment in India, especially in mobility, biotechnology, food processing and advanced manufacturing. Tusk came with nearly 100 business representatives to help companies gain a foothold in the Indian market. His office called this the biggest delegation ever assembled in the history of relations between Poland and India. Modi said that this choice pleased him particularly.<\/p>\n<h2>Priority sectors and human ties<\/h2>\n<p>Beyond goods, the two governments named areas for deeper work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>raw materials, critical minerals and the gasification of coal, a technique that converts coal into gas used for energy and industry;<\/li>\n<li>shipbuilding and defence;<\/li>\n<li>space and advanced technologies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<aside class=\"auk-whxzytu auk-whxzytu--uiccwe\">\n<p class=\"auk-whxzytu__vkanuqim\">People-to-people links<\/p>\n<p>Modi announced plans to reinforce links between startups, including technology hackathons for young people. He also paid tribute to Maharaja Jam Saheb Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji, remembered in Poland under the name \u201cGood Maharaja\u201d, who gave refuge to roughly 1,000 Polish children brought out of the Soviet Union in the Second World War. Modi added that a youth exchange programme bearing his name has so far been held twice. This year Indians rank third among foreign workers in Poland by number, at about 25,500 people, an increase of almost 5% over twelve months.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Modi also referred to Poland\u2019s help for Indian students fleeing Ukraine in 2022 after Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"media-credit auk-gogcn-ertkm\" data-provider=\"pexels\"><small>Photo: Abhinav Tripathi \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/columns-in-traditional-building-in-delhi-15774367\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Pexels<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Tusk and Narendra Modi met in New Delhi on a $6bn trade relationship that is lopsided in India\u2019s favour, with an EU-India deal expected in December.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":27352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1245,1247,1244,1246,1214,1123],"class_list":["post-27350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-donald-tusk","tag-eu-india-trade-deal","tag-india","tag-narendra-modi","tag-poland","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27351,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27350\/revisions\/27351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}