The European Union has decided to set duties on hot-rolled steel from Ukraine, Brazil, Iran, and Russia, after a complaint by EU manufacturers that the product used for construction and machinery was being sold at excessively low prices, Reuters reports.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed law No. 6382 on prolonging for another year the effect of the increased export duty on scrap of ferrous metals, adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on July 13, 2017, with president's amendments, according to the parliament's website.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman says he supports the bill adopted by the Verkhovna Rada to raise the duty on scrap metal exports.
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.