Polish cement producers are urging the European Commission to impose quotas on cement imports from Ukraine, limiting them to 360,000 tons per year. This is nearly half the volume of 2024, when Poland imported over 650,000 tons of Ukrainian cement, according to the report.

The Association of Polish Cement Producers (SPC) argues that this surge in imports harms local businesses, which face unfair competition from Ukrainian suppliers. SPC board member Włodzimierz Chołuj stated, “We are dealing with unfair competition from the East.” Chołuj highlighted that the impact is particularly felt in border regions like the Podkarpackie and Lublin Voivodeships. Data shows Poland imported 101,700 tons of cement from Ukraine in 2022, rising to over 652,000 tons in 2024, with projections exceeding 1 million tons by year-end.

Polish producers complain that Ukraine’s lack of mandatory CO2 emissions fees, unlike in the EU, makes its cement significantly cheaper. As a result, SPC proposes two measures: improving the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), set to take effect in 2026, and restricting Ukrainian cement imports through quotas. In total, Ukraine exported over 1.7 million tons of cement to the EU in 2024.

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