Production of vodka of an alcoholic strength by volume of 45.4% in Ukraine in January-April fell by 20.2% YoY, to 3.7 million deciliters, and brandy output dropped by 9.6%, to 591,000 decaliters. Vodka production in April was 1 million decaliters, up by 4.4% MoM and by 50.1% YoY, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine said.…
The Board of the National Bank of Ukraine has decided to keep its key policy rate at 17%. Headline inflation decelerated to 13.1% YoY last month, according to the NBU’s press release. “This was a minor deviation from the NBU’s latest forecast, caused by the most volatile components and likely to vanish in the coming…
In April Ukraine supplied 24.9 thousand tons of flour to foreign markets, which became the minimum monthly value in 2017-2018 MY, as well as down by 9% YoY (27.4 thousand tons). Decreasing of the interest in Ukrainian flour from its key consumer – North Korea, which did not received the supplies in March and April,…
The Government of Moldova has adopted two resolutions on the liberalization of road transport and air services with Ukraine, the government’s press service has reported. “Moldovan freight carriers will no longer pay taxes for transit across Ukraine. On the basis of the approved documents, the international carriage of goods both bilaterally and in transit for…
The parliamentary committee on industrial policy and entrepreneurship has supported some governmental bills in the sphere of trade protection, the Economic Development and Trade Ministry reports. “On May 23 the Verkhovna Rada committee on industrial policy and entrepreneurship supported a number of draft laws on trade protection approved by the government in February 2010. The…
The Deposit Guarantee Fund has resumed payments to the depositors of insolvent bank PJSC Profin Bank, the Fund’s press service reports. “From May 23 the Deposit Guarantee Fund has started paying refunds to the depositors of PJSC Profin Bank under bank deposit agreements, regardless of the date of their termination and under bank account agreements…
Cereal producer Agricom Group has opened an oat flake facility in the village of Mykhailo-Kotsiubynsky in Chernihiv region to increase production capacity. Construction of the $10.5-million facility took three years and would increase production capacity by 1 million kilograms per month, said the company. Investment for the construction was made up by 40% of the…