Hungarian Agriculture Minister Istvan Nagy said at a meeting with Ukrainian Deputy Economy Minister and Kiev’s Trade Representative Taras Kachka in Budapest on Monday that ban on the imports of Ukrainian agricultural produce will be maintained, but its transit will be permitted. He also promised to try to persuade the European Union to draw up rules that will take Hungarian farmers’ interests into account.
As he said, the Autonomous Trade Measures adopted by Brussels will be in effect until June 5, 2025.
Poland will take over the EU presidency from Hungary in the first half of 2025 and plans to continue discussions on and the implementation of the EU’s green policy, amend the EU’s common agricultural policy and create conditions for Ukraine’s future membership in the EU.
Polish Agriculture Minister Czeslaw Siekierski mentioned Ukraine’s vast agricultural production potential and said that it is a large agricultural exporter. That makes amendment of the EU’s common agricultural policy and adoption of rules that would help keep individual EU agricultural markets stable necessary.
Temporary measures liberalizing trade with Ukraine were extended by the Council of the European Union for another year until June 5, 2025 on May 13, 2024. However, an “emergency brake” for imports of particularly sensitive food products from Ukraine, specifically sugar, eggs, poultry, oats, corn, groats and honey, was included. Restrictive measures are triggered by this emergency brake if imports of these products in 2024 exceed the average quantities imported in the second half of 2021 and in the course of 2022 and 2023.
Ukrainian duty-free exports to the EU market in the amount of 57,101 tonnes of poultry meat, 9,662 tonnes of eggs, 109,439 tonnes of sugar, 18,507 tonnes of honey, 4,648 tonnes of corn, 1,017 tonnes of oat, and 8,603 tonnes of groats between June 6, 2024 and June 5, 2025 is permitted by article 4(7) of the Regulation on Autonomous Trade Measures applicable to Ukrainian products under the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement.
Quotas are imposed on imports of Ukrainian eggs and sugar from June 2, 2024 to June 5, 2025 by the European Commission, as previously reported. It set the new quota at 9,662 tonnes of eggs and 109,440 tonnes of sugar. Moreover, it reinstated quotas on Ukrainian honey imports to the EU market on August 21. The EU will introduce a new tariff quota from January 1, 2025 to June 5, 2025, corresponding to 5/12 of the threshold that triggers the emergency brake. It will set the new quota for honey at 18,507 tonnes.
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