Ukraine's Trade Representative Nataliya Mykolska says Ukraine lost US$31.4 billion in export revenue from 2012 to 2016.
Experts predict that sugar exports from Ukraine will fall by 35% in the current 2017-2018 marketing year (MY, September 2017 – August 2018), to 500,000 tonnes of sugar from a record high 767,300 tonnes reported in MY 2016 – 2017, according to the press service of Ukraine's National Association of Sugar Producers.
Transit shipments of natural gas from Russia through the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS) grew by 22.8% in January-July 2017, to 52.3 billion cubic meters (bcm) year-over-year, according to the press service of the state-run gas transport system operator Ukrtransgaz.
Ukraine is in talks with 22 countries on shipments of animal products onto their markets, according to the press service of Ukraine's State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection.
Transit shipments of natural gas from Russia through the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS) grew by 21% in January-June 2017, to 45.7 billion cubic meters year-over-year, according to the press service of the new gas transport system operator PJSC Trunk Gas Pipelines of Ukraine.