What is the EU polypropylene import price?

MatQuo shows the EU's polypropylene import customs unit value in euros per tonne — declared trade value divided by net mass — updated monthly from official Eurostat COMEXT data. It is a trade average, not a spot or contract market price.

What is the EU import tariff on polypropylene?

The EU's standard most-favoured-nation import duty on polypropylene (HS heading 3902) is 6.5%. Free-trade-agreement origins such as South Korea generally enter at 0%. Confirm the exact rate in the EU's TARIC system.

Where does the EU import polypropylene from?

The EU imports polypropylene from non-EU producers including South Korea, Saudi Arabia, the United States and others. MatQuo lists the top origin countries by volume and value each month, from Eurostat COMEXT data.

Polypropylene (PP)

What the EU actually pays for imported polypropylene: the latest customs unit value in € per tonne, the tonnes moving in and out, the top non-EU origins and the duty that applies to each.

Live · Eurostat COMEXT + ECBHS 3902Updated monthly, about a two-month lagUnit values are declared trade averages, not spot prices

Material decision brief · reviewed 4 Sep 2026Evidence confidence: medium

Polypropylene: a higher customs average alongside a sizeable import deficit

The June 2026 Extra-EU PP import unit value was €1,452/t, 26.4% above June 2025. Imports were 148,368 t and the volume balance was a deficit of 84,098 t. Saudi Arabia was the largest recorded origin by import value share at 19.6%.

What changed

The import and export customs averages were both higher year on year; the export unit value increased 31.1%. The broad plastics PPI was also higher, as context rather than a PP quote.

What did not

HS 3902 aggregates primary-form PP trade. The customs average still mixes grades, origins and terms and cannot show an executable supplier price.

What buyers should monitor

Origin mix, preference evidence, freight and actual PP-grade quotations. Compare Saudi, Korean and other offers on landed cost rather than headline quote alone.

Evidence for this brief

Source: Eurostat Comext, EU27 extra-EU trade, HS 3902, June 2026; ECB reference FX; broad plastics PPI as contextual evidence. Retrieved through MatQuo’s live source pipeline on 4 September 2026. The evidence cannot isolate causation, contract terms or grade mix.

Polypropylene is one of the most versatile plastics — used in automotive parts, packaging, fibres, containers and household goods — so its cost ripples through a huge range of manufacturing.

This page tracks the European Union's polypropylene trade with the rest of the world, live from official data: the import and export unit values in euros per tonne (declared trade averages, not spot prices), tonnes and value, the trade balance, the euro–dollar rate, and which non-EU countries the EU buys its polypropylene from. Below that are the EU import tariff on polypropylene and the customs HS/CN codes. Note: this page covers pure polypropylene (CN 390210); propylene copolymers (390230) are tracked separately.

How this page is built. Every number above is fetched live in your browser from Eurostat COMEXT (EU international trade in goods, HS 3902) and the European Central Bank (euro reference rates). The unit value is the declared customs value divided by the net mass — a trade average across every shipment in the month, not a spot or contract quote; see how customs unit values differ from market prices. COMEXT publishes with roughly a two-month lag and revises earlier months, so the latest point can move. Duty rates are indicative and come from the European Commission's TARIC / Access2Markets; confirm the legal rate before you trade on it.

Worked example — illustrative FOB quote to landed cost

Assume an illustrative supplier FOB quote of €1,330/t, excluding international freight and insurance. This is not the customs unit value above or a current supplier offer.
Eurostat import values are already CIF: do not add international freight and insurance again.
Add sea freight and insurance to a north-European port, say €90/t → CIF €1,420/t.
Apply the duty for the origin you are buying from — 6.5% MFN for origins with no EU trade agreement → €1,512/t. An FTA origin at 0% skips this step entirely, which is why the duty table by country matters as much as the price.
Add local handling and inland haulage, say €20/t.

Landed cost ≈ €1,532/t — run your own numbers in the landed cost calculator.

Work with this figure Sheet weight calculator — turn a €/tonne price into a cost per sheet.
Masterbatch calculator — let-down ratio and additive loading.
Month-by-month polypropylene import statistics — the same series over time, by country.
Masterbatch let-down ratio explained — the background behind these numbers.

Polypropylene imports by origin country

The applicable import tariff depends on the country of origin, so it pays to know your supplier. Explore individual origins:

From South Korea → From Saudi Arabia → From India →

For the month-by-month figures, see the EU polypropylene import statistics, or the full polypropylene import tariff by country.

What the numbers mean

The "unit value" is the declared trade value divided by net mass — a customs-derived average price, not a live market or contract quote. "Extra-EU" trade is trade with countries outside the EU. All figures come from Eurostat's COMEXT database and the European Central Bank, reused under their free-reuse terms with attribution, and update monthly with roughly a two-month lag. MatQuo is an analytical tool, not investment advice.

Polypropylene import prices: reading EU unit values

The figures already displayed above are customs trade averages. Compare the same period, product scope and origin mix; do not interpret a change as a quote for an individual grade.