Last year, nearly 5,000 tons of apples were exported from Poland to Colombia, half as much again as in the year before and almost 30 times more than in 2021. According to the data shared by the Polish Investment and Trade Agency investment agency, the value of export in January 2022 was only $28,000, exactly a year later it increased almost 50 times, to as much as $1.35 million. According to preliminary estimates, the result for the whole of 2023 is almost $5 mln.

Since 2019 there have been no formal barriers for the export of Polish apples to Colombia. Despite the lack of restrictions, the breakthrough did not come until three years later.

In October 2022, a large fruit distributor operating in Colombia’s largest cities came to PAIH’s Foreign Trade Office in Bogotá. The reaction of the Agency’s employees was immediate, and soon the Colombian entrepreneur already had meetings arranged with the main fruit groups operating in the Grójec region of Poland. The visit ended with the signing of three export contracts and, in December of the same year, the mission was repeated.

The reputation of the quality of Polish apples quickly spread throughout Latin America. Next stop, Chile.