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In particular, Ukrainian exporters have fully used their tariff quotas for honey, malt, wheat fiber, processed tomatoes, grape and apple juices, wheat, maize, and creamery butter.
Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Olha Trofimtseva says Ukraine has fully used a number of its quotas as of September 25 for duty-free exports of agricultural products within the EU-Ukraine free trade area.
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"The best confirmation of the fact that the agreement on EU-Ukraine [deep and comprehensive] free trade area [DCFTA] is working is a constant increase in domestic agrarian and food exports to the markets of the EU states. Traditionally, Ukrainian exporters have fully used their tariff quotas for honey, malt, wheat fiber, processed tomatoes, grape and apple juices, wheat, maize, and creamery butter," the ministry's press service quoted Trofimtseva as saying on September 26.
Moreover, additional trade preferences received in 2017 for maize, soft wheat, honey and processed tomatoes were also used as of September 25.
According to Trofimtseva, tariff quotas for Ukrainian starch were fulfilled by more than 85%, those for processed starch by 99.4%, poultry by 75%, eggs and albumins by 53.7%, and garlic by 61.2%.
As UNIAN reported earlier, the EU-Ukraine free trade area (FTA) entered into force on January 1, 2017.
Exports of Ukrainian agricultural and food products to European countries in 2017 grew by over 37%, or by US$1.6 billion, to $5.8 billion.