‘Trade visa-free regime’ for another year: conditions for Ukrainian agricultural exports to enter the EU market
Kyiv • UNN
Ukraine has granted duty-free and quota-free access to exports of agricultural products, including poultry, eggs, sugar, honey, corn, oats, and cereals to the EU until June 5, 2025, with conditions for certain products based on average export volumes in 2021-2023.
The European Union has extended duty-free and quota-free trade with Ukraine until June 5, 2025. This was reported by UNN with reference to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.
Details
The European Union has finally approved the decision to extend autonomous trade measures for Ukraine for another year, until June 5, 2025. The decision comes into force on June 6, 2024.
Ukraine will be able to continue exporting agricultural products to the EU without quotas and duties, but conditions for certain types of agricultural products will be imposed.
Ukraine will supply poultry meat, eggs, sugar, oats, cereals, corn, and honey to the EU based on the average export volumes recorded in the second half of 2021 and in 2022-2023.
Scope of the Regulation on Autonomous Trade Measures applicable to Ukrainian products under the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement:
1) Product: Poultry
Imports registered between July 01, 2021 and December 31, 2023// metric tons: 342 607,00
Arithmetic average of imports between July 01, 2021 and December 31, 2023// metric tons: 137 042,80
Five twelfths (5/12) of the arithmetic mean of imports between July 01, 2021 and December 31, 2023// metric tons: 57 101,17
2) Eggs; 57,972.40; 23,188.96; 9,662.07
3) Sugar; 656,631.70; 262,652.68; 109,438.62
4) Honey; 111,043.90; 44,417.56; 18,507.32
5) Corn; 27,888,622.60; 11,155,449.04; 4,648,103.77
6) Oats; 6,101.40; 2,440.56; 1,016.90;
7) Cereals; 51,620.60; 20,648.24; 8,603.43.
Recall
Exports of agricultural products from Ukraine increased by 7% to $22.9 billion, with grain shipments reaching 43 million tons.
