Ukraine’s merchandise trade deficit widened 49.1% to $14.594 billion in January-May 2025, from $9.787 billion in the same period of last year, Ukrainian media quoted the State Statistics Service as saying. Exports fell 5.4% year-on-year to $16.947 billion, while imports rose 13.9% to $31.54 billion. Seasonally adjusted exports rose 5.5% to $3.614 billion in May … Read more
Ukraine exported 60,000 tonnes of grains and leguminous crops from the start of the 2025/26 marketing year to July 4, 2025, Ukrainian media reported with reference to the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry and the State Customs Service data. This amount includes 25,000 tonnes of wheat (compared with 245,000 tonnes in the 2024/25 MY), 34,000 … Read more
The European Commission (EC) has announced the completion of its talks over reviewing the European Union’s Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) Agreement with Ukraine. The modernized agreement ensures trade flows from Ukraine to Europe and world markets and is also building bridges of stability and economic solidarity, while continuing to defend EU farmers’ … Read more
The European Commission and the Ukrainian government have reached an agreement in principle on their trade relations in the future, particularly as regards exports of agricultural products, Ukrainian media quoted European Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Christophe Hansen as saying at a press conference in Brussels on Monday. After the start of the crisis, the … Read more
Quota systems and other trade restrictions threaten to narrow market development and complicate export routes for Ukrainian agricultural products, particularly raw material producers, warns Taras Bashtannik, president of the Ukrainian Fruit and Vegetable Association, as reported by SEEDS. The impact of revised EU trade preferences, adopted on June 5, was the focus of an online … Read more
Ukraine’s negative balance of foreign trade in goods increased by 48.5% in January-April 2025 versus the same period in 2024 – to $11.512 billion from $7.755 billion, Ukrainian media said, citing a statement by the State Statistics Service. Ukrainian exports decreased by 6.9% YoY to $13.312 billion, while imports grew 12.6% to $24.824, it said. … Read more
Ukraine has imposed a quota on sugar exports to the European Union in 2025 in the amount of around 11,008 tonnes, as well as a 51,071-tonne quota on exports of poultry meat (chicken, duck, goose, and guinea fowl meat) and edible poultry by-products, including an 11,655-tonne quota on frozen exports. The government’s June 6 order … Read more
The European Commission is implementing a special arrangement to ensure a smooth transition from the Autonomous Trade Measures (ATM) currently applied to Ukraine, which are expiring in a few days, to the previous tariff conditions for Kiev, European Commission spokesperson Olof Gill said. “The autonomous trade measures expire on the [June] 5, that being this … Read more
Having taken the office, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk launched a campaign to persuade the European Union into scrapping the Autonomous Trade Measures (ATM) that liberalize trade with Ukraine, Ukrainian media said, citing his statement with the reference to RMF24. Tusk said the Polish government wants to help Ukraine but this should not be done … Read more
The European Union is preparing to raise tariffs on certain goods from Ukraine, the Financial Times said on Wednesday, citing its sources. “The EU is preparing to apply much higher tariffs on Ukrainian imports within weeks,” the Financial Times said. As the Ukraine crisis began, the EU allowed duty-free imports of the majority of Ukrainian … Read more