According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, since the beginning of the new season-2017-2018 and as of July 12 Ukraine supplied 575 thousand tons of grain crops to foreign markets. In particular, the exports of wheat totaled 150 thousand tons, barley – 75 thousand tons, and corn – 350 thousand tons. In addition,…
Ukraine has fully used its annual quotas for the European Union’s duty-free exports for nine commodity groups in 2017, according to the press service of the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club Association (UCAB). In particular, the quotas for honey, sugar, cereals, flour, processed tomatoes, grape and apple juice, chicken meat, and grain, namely wheat, maize, and barley…
More than UAH 16 billion will be spent on road construction in Ukraine this year, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said. “We are confident that more than UAH 16 billion will be used for road construction where it has never been done in Ukraine this year so that people could feel we have resources to…
The state-owned enterprise Boryspil International Airport in 2013-2016 provided discounts to the airport fees only to the private joint-stock company Ukraine International Airlines (UIA, Kyiv), according to recommendations of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine dated June 14 and published recently. “The discounts were not provided to other airlines,” the committee said. The committee said that…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has become a member of the Basel Consultative Group (BCG), the outreach arm of the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision (BCBS), the NBU has reported on its website. “The BCG aims at attracting supervision officials of the countries which are not committee members to the discussion of new proposals…
The public joint-stock company Agrarian Fund has ordered mineral fertilizers valued at UAH 1 billion from Ostchem Group, which allowed three enterprises of the group to resume operations. According to a press release of Agrarian Fund, the funds to form batches of fertilizers and launching the plants totaled some UAH 1 billion, including UAH 750…
A free trade agreement between Turkey and Ukraine will be signed by the end of this year, Turkish Deputy Economy Minister Fatih Metin said at a meeting of the International Turkish Ukrainian Businessmen Association (TUID) in Kyiv on July 11. According to Metin, the free trade agreement between Turkey and Ukraine is being drafted, but…