Since the beginning of 2016/2017 MY, Ukraine exported 20.061 million tons of grains, up by 0.88 million tons YoY, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine declared. In particular, wheat exports totaled 10.6 million tons (up by 1.1 million tons YoY), corn – 5.3 million tons (down by 0.45 million tons), and barley…
Ukraine and the Republic of Ireland have discussed the issue of possible expansion of trade and economic cooperation, in particular, with regard to imports of Irish beef, pork, milk, and dairy products to Ukraine. This has been reported by the State Service of Ukraine on Food Safety and Consumer Protection following a meeting of Chairman…
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…
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…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called on Russia and Ukraine to settle Kiev’s $3 billion eurobond owned by Moscow on which the fund’s disbursal of the next tranche depends, Ron van Rooden, chief of the IMF’s recent mission to Ukraine, reported. He declined to say whether any progress had been reached on the matter,…