Last week Latvia’s Saeima conceptually supported legal drafts that provided for raising micro-enterprise tax rate from 9% to 15% and refusal of introduction of minimal social fees starting from 2017. This means the end for the story that riled up the population at the end of the year. Or perhaps it’s just the beginning. In…
Ukraine buys up to 9 million tons of coal per year from the occupied territories of Donbas, Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Kistion said. “We receive coal in the amount of up to 9 million tons per year from the occupied territories”, he said. Kistion added coal was supplied by the companies that were registered and…
Nordica airline, which was founded in 2015 by the Estonian state, released on December 15, the estimate that it would transport about 400,000 passengers in its first full year of operation. The company’s communications manager Piret Sauter said that over the last few months, Nordica had transported more passengers than any other airline at Tallinn…
At the meeting with Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, Vice-Premier, Minister of Economy of Moldova Octavian Calmic said the authorities sought to open an economic representative office under the Embassy of Moldova in Turkey for implementing joint projects with the country. Besides, the expansion of the trade and economic ties between the two countries is…
In January-October the foreign trade deficit in goods in Ukraine totaled $2.089 billion against $397.1 million of proficit in the same period last year, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine reported. In particular, in January-October the exports of commodities from Ukraine totaled $29.113 billion, down by 7.9% YoY. The import volumes of goods to Ukraine…
Milk Alliance Group has reported that a first batch of butter with 82.5% fat content in the amount of 140 tons has been shipped to the Netherlands. “Public joint-stock company Zolotonosha Butter Factory made the butter. Examinations confirmed high quality of our product”, the company said on its Facebook page. In January 2017 the company…
Naftogaz Ukrainy is very unlikely to buy gas from Gazprom until the end of winter, CEO Andrei Kobolev said. “We have not bought gas from Gazprom this year. Under our estimates, we will not do this until the end of this year, that’s why 2016 will be a full calendar year, which we’ve spent without…