Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze says Ukraine is ready to consider the creation of a free trade area with Albania to intensify bilateral cooperation, according to the Ukrainian government's press service.
As of January 11, the Ukrainian farmers have used up 100% of the country's export quota for the supply of honey to the European Union, given its last year's increase, First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Maksym Martyniuk said Thursday.
Ukraine is ready to begin a dialogue with the European Union in the near future on the provision of additional trade preferences for Ukrainian producers, according to the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine.
Ukraine in January-November 2017 boosted its revenue from exports of agricultural and food products to the European Union member states to US$5.2 billion, which was 38.2%, or $1.4 billion, up year-over-year, according to the Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry's press service.
Bilateral trade between Ukraine and the European Union grew by 29%, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman told a press conference in Brussels on Friday.
While imports of Ukrainian fresh fruit and berries to the European market continue to rise, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on December is conducting a training seminar in Kyiv aimed at helping farmers prepare for even greater volumes of fruit and berry exports.
Since the introduction of the Ukraine-EU Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area on January 1, 2016, the export of Ukrainian goods to the European countries grew by 10%, Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman said, speaking at the "One Belt - One Way" forum in Tbilisi.
The European Union is considering the possibility of concluding a customs union with Ukraine, while not regarding this idea useful at the moment, according to a response of by the EU Mission to Ukraine to the request of Ukrainian media outlet, Europeiska Pravda.
In a joint statement, European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmstroem and Trade Representative of Ukraine - Deputy Minister for Economic Development and Trade Nataliya Mykolska welcome the entry into force of the autonomous trade measures of the European Union for Ukraine on October 1, 2017.
Trade Representative of Ukraine Nataliya Mikolska sat down with UNIAN to elaborate on the reasons for the growth of Ukrainian exports in 2017, the launch of more free trade areas, the main export trends toward Europe, and to tell us why Ukraine wants to review the terms of its free trade with the EU.
The Ukrainian Economic Development and Trade Ministry has initiated a review of the terms of the EU-Ukraine deep and comprehensive free trade area toward its expansion, including the revision of issues of a customs union and additional mechanisms, according to the ministry's website.
The European Parliament on Wednesday, September 13, has signed a decision on granting Ukraine additional trade preferences, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
The Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine enters fully into force on Friday, September 1.
Ukraine has concluded 16 free trade agreements over the years of independence, covering 45 countries, according to a report posted on Facebook by Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade and Ukraine's Trade Representative Natalia Mykolska.
The exports of Ukrainian agrarian products to European countries in January-June 2017 increased by 31.4%, or by $663.4 million, compared to the same period last year, amounting to $2.774 billion, as reported by the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, with reference to the Deputy Minister for European Integration Olha Trofimtseva.
The closure of the Russian market for Ukrainian goods led to the fact that Ukraine’s major businesses had already reoriented their sales to the West, and today in terms of money, they are much more dependent on the EU than on the Russian Federation, with steelmaking industry being a perfect example, according to the Novoe Vremya weekly.
Trade turnover between Ukraine and the European Union in the first quarter of 2017 increased by 21.6%, the press service of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade reported.
The Council of the European Union has completed the process of ratification of the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement, an UNIAN correspondent in Brussels learned from a source in the Council.
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The European Union plans to approve new autonomous preferences for Ukraine before the end of June, ahead of the Ukraine-EU summit to be held in the middle of summer, Europeiska Pravda reports with reference to a source in the European Commission.
The European choice of Ukraine determines the country’s strategy on the European Union as the priority foreign-trade partner. The pattern and pace of the national economy’s growth and the European integration idea’s progress critically depend on the development of commodity relations with the EU, UkrAgroConsult reports.