Polish wood furniture industry, which is expanding partly at the expense of manufacturing in western European countries, particularly Germany, is playing an important role to drive the on-going rise in internal EU trade. By far the largest increase in internal EU wood furniture trade flows in the last two years was in exports from Poland to Germany.  In recent years, Poland has quickly emerged as the world’s sixth largest furniture producer and fourth largest furniture exporter.  This has been achieved by exploiting the combination of the EU’s common market in goods, proximity to ...