New quality requirements for products made of cocoa and chocolate, which are expected to ensure compliance with the European food safety and quality standards, began to operate in Ukraine on January 1, 2018, according to the EU Delegation to Ukraine.
Ukrainian enterprises in January-October 2017 supplied over 10,000 tonnes of chocolate to the European Union markets, which was 35% up year-over-year (y-o-y), according to Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Olha Trofimtseva.
Traders and distributors of Hong Kong are highly interested in Ukrainian chocolate and confectionery, the press service of the Ukrainian Food Export Board reported.
Ukraine's Interdepartmental Commission on International Trade has decided to apply an anti-dumping duty for five years with regard to chocolate products from Russia, according to the website of the official government gazette Uriadovy Kurier.