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Ukraine's Trade Envoy Nataliya Mykolska has told UNIAN in an interview that 63 Ukrainian enterprises have obtained permits to export food to the EU, including 29 businesses that received export licenses after the partial application of Association Agreement provisions in 2015.
"We already have 63 Ukrainian enterprises that have obtained permits to export food products. At the same time, 29 enterprises obtained export rights after the provisional measures of the Ukraine-EU Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement were enforced," she said.
Read alsoUkraine preparing fourth claim against Russia to be lodged with WTO – trade envoyAccording to the official, nine companies are authorized to export poultry and meat products, while dairy products could be exported by 19 companies, fish products by 23 companies, eggs by three companies, frog legs and snails by five companies, and other foodstuffs by four companies.
Mykolska also noted that Ukrainian exporters are increasingly focusing on the European market.
"We already have 140 enterprises with authorized exporters' status in the EU. These are the enterprises that have been exporting goods for more than a year and have a history of relations with European partners. All these figures indicate that the EU market is not a certain European integration goal of the state but the market that is in focus of Ukrainian businesses. More and more Ukrainian enterprises are no longer only theoretically eying our DCFTA with the EU. The businesses begin to discover new opportunities," the trade envoy said.