Ukraine will export some agricultural products to the EU under new rules. Acting Minister of Agricultural Policy Taras Vysotskyi said that on June 5, updated rules for duty-free trade in agricultural products with the EU will come into effect and will be valid for one year.... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #FreeTradeAgreement #SugarExport #TarasVysotskyi #TradeRestriction
Exports through the Ukrainian Sea corridor have become easier with the participation of more insurance companies. The export of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea has been simplified by the increasing number of insurance companies operating in this market, said Oleg Kiper, the head of the Odesa Regional State ... #agroexportukraine #blacksea #BlackSeaCorridor #OlehKiper #UkraineMaritimeCorridor #UkrainianShipInsurance
The EU has finally prolonged duty-free trade with Ukraine, but with safeguards. The EU Council approved the extension of preferential trade with Ukraine for another year until June 5, 2025. In contrast to similar decisions in previous years, this year the EU decided to continue d... #agroexportukraine #DutyFreeTrade #EUmarket #FreeTradeAgreement #UkraineEUtrade #UkraineExport
Last year, Ukraine’s export of agricultural products to the EU decreased by 27.5%. According to Eurostat data, the total value of Ukrainian agricultural goods imported by the EU in 2023 decreased compared to 2022 by 27.5%, or by €3.6B, to €9.5B. As a result, Ukraine’s share among EU... #agroexportukraine #EUEconomy #Eurostat #foreignTrade #UkraineExport
Ukraine has already exported 45 million tons of goods by sea, and revenue from the export of metal products has increased by 16.5%, reaching $1B. About 1,600 ships exported 45 million tons of cargo from the ports of Odesa during the almost nine months of the Ukrainian Sea Corridor’s operation. In particular, 38 countries received more than 30 m... #agroexportukraine #BlackSeaPort #OdesaSeaport #UkraineExport #UkraineMaritimeCorridor #UkrainianMetalExport #Ukrainianmetallurgy
Due to the non-taxation of 40% of the grain harvest, Ukraine has lost billions of dollars. Against the background of the war, Ukrainian farmers are resorting to “optimization” of grain taxation, which is why about 40% of the grain harvest avoids it altogether. Over the past two ... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #FarmersUkraine #TarasKachka #TaxesinUkraine #Ukrainiangrain
The export of agricultural products via the Black Sea corridor has reached pre-war levels. After the Russian Federation withdrew from the Black Sea Grain Initiative last summer, 1,300 ships have carried 25 million tons of farm products through the temporary sea route created by Ukraine and ... #agroexportukraine #GlobalFoodSecurity #GrainfromUkraine #UkraineMaritimeCorridor #Ukrainiangrain
The European Parliament approves restrictions on the import of Ukrainian food, costing Ukraine €331M. The European Parliament approved the extension for a year (from June 6) of duty-free trade in Ukrainian agricultural products while introducing new import restriction levels to appease EU protesters. ... #agroexportukraine #EUfarmers #FarmersProtest #GrainEmbargo #TradeRestriction #TradeVisaFree
In the first quarter, the volume of Ukrainian agricultural exports dropped by 4%. In the first quarter of 2024, Ukraine’s export of agri-food products amounted to about $6.5B, which is 4% less than in the first quarter of 2023. It is noted that revenues from the sale of meat ... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #HoneyExport #MeatExport #UkraineFoodExport
Falling prices had an even greater impact on the reduction of Ukrainian exports than the border blockade. The reduction of Ukrainian exports occurred not only due to the negative impact from the Polish border blockade. According to experts, the main blow to the growth of Ukrainian exports is the reduction... #agroexportukraine #BorderBlockade #UkraineExport #UkraineMaritimeCorridor #UkraineTrade #Ukrainetradedeficit
Due to EU restrictions, Ukraine will lose more than €300M, and the supply of sugar, poultry, and eggs to the EU market will stop. Ukraine’s losses due to the EU’s introduction of a new protective mechanism against its agricultural products, which will become effective June 6, will approximately amount to €315M. The introdu... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #TradeRestriction #UkraineEconomy #UkraineExport
Ukraine increased its export of metal and iron ore raw materials. Head of the Committee on Finance Danylo Hetmantsev pointed out that, in the results from the first quarter of 2024, mining and metallurgical complex products account for almost 20% of all commodity ex... #agroexportukraine #DanyloHetmantsev #grainexport #IronOreExport #UkraineExport #UkrainianMetalExport
What position did Ukraine hold among globabl exporters of agricultural products before the full-scale war? As KSE-Agrocenter analysts noted, over the past two decades Ukraine has gradually become the world’s main supplier of agricultural products. Before the full-scale invasion, agriculture produced ... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #GDPinUkraine #UkraineEconomy #Ukrainiangrain
Due to new EU restrictions and increased control over transporters, Ukrainian farmers should look for alternative sales markets. Deputy Minister of Agricultural Policy Taras Vysotskyi said that, starting in June, the EU will introduce restrictions on importing certain types of Ukrainian agricultural products if their supply exc... #agroexportukraine #FarmersUkraine #TarasVysotskyi #TradeRestriction #transportvisafree
Russia’s attacks on Odesa will reduce grain exports by three million tons. The attacks on the area’s infrastructure, particularly near the port, may reduce the export of Ukrainian grain in April from eight to five million tons. “During the first 10 days of April, Ukrai... #agroexportukraine #AttackOnOdesa #ChornomorskSeaPort #OdesaSeaport #RussianAggression #UkraineMaritimeCorridor #WarinUkraine
A transshipment terminal with a capacity of three million tons was built in Romania near the Ukrainian border. Romania’s largest private rail freight operator, the Grampet Group, has built a rail transshipment terminal in Dornești near the Romanian-Ukrainian border. The terminal should become a strategic... #agroexportukraine #Dornești #GrampetGroup #RailTerminal #TransshipmentTerminal
The European Parliament and the Council of EU have reached a preliminary agreement on continuing trade liberalization with Ukraine. Thus, import duties and quotas for the export of Ukrainian agricultural products to the EU will be suspended for another year, until June 5, 2025. However, in the event of a significant disruption to ... #agroexportukraine #EUCouncil #EuropeanParliament #TradeLiberalization #UkraineTrade
Ukraine feeds the world at too low a cost; export earnings in March amounted to $2B. In March, agricultural exports brought $1.318B in trade balance and $2B in export earnings. According to Infoindustry: “If we look at the average price of export products and the average price o... #agroexportukraine #AgroImportUkraine #FoodSecurity #UkraineTrade #UkraineTradeBalance
Ukrainian and Polish farmers agree on the export of a wide range of products, but not grain. Trade negotiations between Ukraine and Poland continue not only between governments but also at the level of agricultural associations. As a result, Ukraine reached an agreement on exporting chicken m... #agroexportukraine #MichalKolodziejczak #PolishFarmers #TradeAgreement #UkrainePolandTrade #UkrainianGrainTransit
The EU has agreed on new terms for Ukraine’s trade benefits. Ambassadors from the EU member states reached a compromise on the issue of extending the preferential trade regime with Ukraine for another year. The agreement provides that the base period that will ... #agroexportukraine #EUparliament #EUUkrainefreetrade #TradeAgreement #TradeLiberalization #TradeVisaFree
Ukraine and Poland could not agree on unblocking the border; more time is needed. Minister of Agrarian Policy Mykola Solskyi commented on the meeting results in the tripartite format, Ukraine-Poland-EU. Negotiations on the issues of unblocking the border and finding common position... #agroexportukraine #BorderBlockade #JanGrabiec #MykolaSolsky #OlgaStefanishyna
Moldova’s largest sunflower oil producer has stopped its plant due to a lack of Ukrainian raw materials. The Floarea Soarelui company said that the plant has suspended operations because it cannot purchase enough sunflower seeds on the local market and cannot import them because the import licensing mech... #agroexportukraine #FloareaSoarelui #Moldova #SunflowerOil
Under a new duty-free trade project with the EU, Ukraine risks losing more than €330M. The Council of the EU has updated the draft agreement that extends duty-free trade with Ukraine. In particular, the demands of Poland and France, supported by Italy, Austria, and Hungary, have been co... #agroexportukraine #FreeTradeAgreement #TradeAgreement #UkraineTrade
Additional restrictions on the import of Ukrainian food products to the EU may prolong the war. The Minister of Agricultural Policy, Mykola Solsky, believes that attempts by France and Poland to expand restrictions on importing Ukrainian products to the EU “will increase the chances for th... #agroexportukraine #FarmersProtest #MykolaSolsky #TradeAgreement #TradeVisaFree
The EU has postponed approval of the trade agreement with Ukraine, while discussions are ongoing. The Belgian presidency of the Council of the EU postponed approval of the trade agreement with Ukraine by the ambassadors of 27 countries to March 27. France and Poland, with the support of countries ... #agroexportukraine #EUCouncil #SupportUkraine #TradeAgreement #TradeRestriction
Ukraine and Poland are moving toward resolution of the trade dispute. The parties have made great progress on the issue of market regulation, and negotiation might finish this week, Polish Development Minister Krzysztof Hetman said. The Economic Committee of the Ukraini... #agroexportukraine #GrainCrisis #KrzysztofHetman #TradeAgreement #UkrainePolandTrade
Due to export issues with the EU, Ukraine is reorienting its sugar exports: 20% was purchased by three African countries. Since the beginning of March, Ukrainian sugar producers began actively selling their products on the African continent. This alternative direction appeared following active lobbying to ban the sale of... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #SugarExport #SugarProduction
The EU has already agreed to extend the preferential trade regime with Ukraine, but is still considering European farmers’ interests. The Parliament and the Council of the EU reached a preliminary agreement on continuing trade liberalization measures for Ukraine. The temporary suspension of import duties and quotas to export Ukraini... #agroexportukraine #EuropeanParliament #TradeAgreement #TradeLiberalization #ВідвантаженнятоварівУкраїна
France and Poland propose to limit the import of Ukrainian products to the EU, although Ukrainian exports do not pressure prices in Poland. France supported Poland’s calls to restrict the export of agricultural products from Ukraine to the EU. According to EC estimates, this will cost Ukraine €1.2B in trade revenues. France also thr... #agroexportukraine #FarmersProtest #GrainEmbargo #UkrainianGrainTransit
The victory over the Russian fleet has helped to overcome the collapse of grain exports by sea. Since August, Ukraine has launched a series of attacks on Russian military ships and naval facilities, destroying a fifth of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. This allowed Ukraine to close the Russian navy... #agroexportukraine #BlackSeaPorts #RussianFleetAttack #RussianMilitaryShips #UkraineMaritimeCorridor
Ukrainian agrarians predict an 8% smaller harvest of grain and oil crops this year, hence a drop in exports. The Ukrainian Grain Association predicts that the 2024 harvest will amount to 76.1 million tons of grain and oilseed, which is 6.5 million tons, or 8%, less than last year. A potential decrease in the... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #GrainHarvest #Harvest2024 #Ukrainiangrain
Ukraine and Poland are close to signing an agreement on joint customs control and are discussing mutual licensing of agricultural product exports. Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Serhiy Derkach said, following the ninth Polish-Ukrainian intergovernmental commission meeting, that Ukraine and Poland are finalizing a draft of the agreement on joi... #agroexportukraine #CustomsUkraine #CzesławSiekierski #ExportLicensing #PolandUkrainetrade #SerhiiDerkach
The EC calls the problems on the Ukrainian-Polish border temporary and explains their causes. The Vice-President of the EC, Valdis Dombrovskis, explains that the problems on Ukraine’s border with Poland are a short-term consequence of the Russian war. More precisely, they are echoes from... #agroexportukraine #BorderBlockade #FarmersProtest #ValdisDombrovskis
Ukraine and Poland will meet in Lviv on March 11 to discuss the border blockade and trade. On Monday, Ukraine and Poland will hold the ninth meeting of the Ukrainian-Polish Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation, co-chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk and Ministe... #agroexportukraine #BorderBlockade #FarmersProtest #IrynaVereshchuk #KrzysztofHetman #UkrainePoland
The logistics cost of exporting agricultural products to the ports of Odesa has decreased by 33%. Logistics costs for the export of farm products through the ports of Odesa in 2023 decreased by 33% compared to 2022, and shipping through the Romanian port of Constanta via the Danube ports by 40%, a... #agroexportukraine #ConstantaPort #DanubePorts #GrainLogistics #SeaExport #SeaPortsUkraine #UkraineEconomy
How will Poland’s total embargo on Ukrainian farm imports affect Ukraine? Poland is confidently moving toward a complete, indefinite embargo on Ukrainian food. The NBU reports that exports of food products to Poland last year amounted to $1.8B, or 8% of total food exports. ... #agroexportukraine #BorderBlockade #FarmersProtest #GrainEmbargo #UkrainePolandTrade #ВідвантаженнятоварівУкраїна
Ukraine is exporting more and more by sea as rail transportation of grain across the western borders falls by 23%. Almost 30 million tons of goods were exported through the Ukrainian sea corridor in seven months. According to the Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov, the volume of goods shipped through th... #agroexportukraine #grainexport #OleksandrKubrakov #UkraineMaritimeCorridor #UkrainianRailways
Ukraine is ready for EU trade restrictions on the condition that imports from Russia stop. Ukraine is prepared to accept restrictions on trade with the EU to defuse a sharp political dispute with Poland. At the same time, Kyiv calls on the bloc to ban the import of Russian agricultural prod... #agroexportukraine #TarasKachka #TradeAgreement #TradeRestriction #UkraineTrade
The Ministry of Agriculture of Ukraine assesses the profitability of the farm sector. In 2024, profitability will increase for all grain and oil crops. This is forecast provides that the situation with security and exports utilizing sea transport will not become more complicated, and t... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #FarmersUkraine #GrainHarvest
Ukraine plans to reach the pre-war agricultural product export indicators; the main trade route is the Black Sea. In February, Ukraine exported more than five million tons of agricultural products via the Black Sea, Deputy Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Agrarian Council Denys Marchuk said. He clarified that, befor... #agroexportukraine #agroukriane #BlackSeaPort #DanubePorts #DenysMarchuk
Ukraine’s losses from the border blockade have reached ₴20B: Though the EP will continue free trade with Ukraine, the EU is tightening export controls. The profile committee of the European Parliament plans to continue the free trade zone with Ukraine this week, said Deputy Minister of Agricultural Policy of Ukraine Taras Vysotskyy. He added this is ... #AdinaValean #agroexportukraine #BorderBlockade #FarmersProtest #TarasVysotskyi #UkraineEconomy
Ukraine does not predict a quick end to the farmers’ protests in Poland, so it is reorienting logistics and preparing long-term solutions. The Minister of European Integration of Ukraine, Olha Stefanishyna, said that after several meetings between Ukrainian and Polish authorities, there is an understanding that the farmers’ protest... #agroexportukraine #BorderBlockade #FarmersProtest #OlgaStefanishyna #PolishFarmers
The Polish border blockade extends to Germany and Lithuania, and Polish carriers will join the farmers on the Ukrainian border. Polish carriers plan to resume their protests on the Ukrainian border starting March 1. Their protests had paused in January of this year. According to RMF FM, the carriers want to join the blocking o... #agroexportukraine #BorderBlockade #EUfarmers #FarmersProtest #PolishCarriers #Zelenskyy
While Ukraine is working to unblock its borders, Poland is preparing significant restrictions on Ukrainian products. Polish authorities plan to restrict Ukrainian products such as sugar, poultry meat, eggs, frozen raspberries, apple juice, sunflower, and rapeseed oil. Thus, the restrictions on grain are planned to b... #agroexportukraine #BorderBlockade #CzesławSiekierski #DenysShmyhal #GrainEmbargo
Ukraine exported 30 million tons of agricultural products by waterways in seven months. Over 30 million tons of Ukrainian farm products were exported through the ports of Odesa and the Danube in almost seven months (since August 2023), which is 93% of Ukraine’s total exports, the Ministr... #agroexportukraine #BlackSeaPort #DanubePorts #OleksandrKubrakov #UkraineMaritimeCorridor
The EU will extend visa-free trade with Ukraine and Moldova. The Committee of Permanent Representatives of the EU agreed on a mandate for negotiations on the continuation of the suspension of tariffs and duties on imports from Ukraine and Moldova. Proposals rel... #agroexportukraine #EuropeanIntegration #FreeTradeAgreement #MoldovaTrade #TradeVisaFree #UkraineEUtrade
Due to the blockade of the Polish border, the Ukrainian government is planning new export routes through Hungary and Romania. “Agrarian strikes are taking place in Poland. Today, rail transportation has already been blocked. Hungary is ready to transit these goods through its territory. Therefore, we are considering re... #agroexportukraine #BorderBlockade #DanubeGrainRoute #OleksandrKubrakov #UkrainianRailways #ValeryTkachov
How has the Polish border blockade affected international trucking? As of February 19, the volume of agricultural products exported over roads amounted to 265,000 tons, compared to 138,000 tons in January and 246,000 tons in December. The largest contributions to tota... #agroexportukraine #BorderBlockade #Cargotransportation #UkrainianCarriers #ВідвантаженнятоварівУкраїна
Polish farmers have blocked the railway and dumped grain from the wagons. The Polish government has called for an end to the blockade and suggested a full embargo on agricultural goods from Ukraine. On the morning of February 20, Polish farmers intensified their protests ne... #agroexportukraine #BorderBlockade #CzesławSiekierski #KrzysztofHetman #PolishFarmers
While Ukraine is cutting exports and Poland is blocking its borders, the EU is increasing grain imports from Russia by 900%. The actual volume of grain exports by Ukraine since the beginning of the 2023/2024 marketing year as of February 19 is 27.06 million tons, which is 10.7% less than in the previous season. At the same ... #agroexportukraine #BorderBlockade #RussianGrain #Ukrainiangrain
