Quirky Exports from Poland

Poland is noted for certain exports such as vodka, furniture, industrial components and the like, but there are bunches of quirky stuff too.

A list from the Central Statistical Office includes a variety of unusual products like false teeth, playing cards, globes, beards, eyelashes and braids.


Playing cards were one of the best selling items. They are very popular in France and a number of other EU countries. In this market segment you could say the deck is stacked in Poland's favor.The French bought nearly 620,000 lbs. of playing cards valued at over PLN 5 million. The total value of Polish playing cards sold abroad in 2014 reached 26 million. This is almost as much as the entire Polish exports to Venezuela!

Something Poland can sink its teeth into are a half-million sets of artificial teeth sold to Moldova, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and more obscure places like French Polynesia.
  

While Moscow has imposed a ban on Polish apples and other food such as meat and poultry because of rising tensions, Polish companies earned more than PLN 1.4 million for selling decorative globes  to Russia.

Poland exports a lot of beards, eyebrows, eyelashes and braids.

A hair raising amount of Złoty comes from beards, eyebrows, eyelashes and braids and are popular among Nordic nations, especially Norwegians and Finns. In 2014, each of those nations bought more than a ton of these products.

 But, the product seen to the left is still my favorite.