Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko has announced he has agreed with his Georgian counterpart Giorgi Margvelashvili to facilitate economic partnership and deepen the free trade area. “We’ve agreed to intensify economic partnership, remove all barriers, coordinate tariffs, including for rail and ferry services, and deepen the free trade area,” he said at a joint press conference…
The deficit of Ukraine’s foreign trade in commodities was estimated at $1.7 billion in January-May, up 1.8-fold YoY, according to the Ukrainian State Statistics Service’s website. Exports of goods from Ukraine over the period under review grew by 25.9% YoY, while imports of goods rose by 28.6%, the service said in a statement. The ratio…
Belarus needs to intensify its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), Belarus’ Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei said. “We need to remove as many barriers as we can in advancing our products to all the markets. We need to intensify (and we have been working hard) on our country’s accession to the World…
A large delegation from Saudi Arabia, which will include representatives of both, state structures and the private sector, plans to visit Azerbaijan in October. Azerbaijan and Saudi Arabia enjoy successful cooperation in a number of areas and have fruitful bilateral cooperation within international organizations. During the upcoming meeting of the intergovernmental commission on trade and…
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…
Over the past 4 months, trade turnover between Kazakhstan and Malaysia increased by 30% YoY. “Kazakhstan sees Malaysia as an important strategic, trade and economic partner among the countries of South-East Asia. I would like to note the positive dynamics of the bilateral trade and economic cooperation development. Foreign trade turnover between Kazakhstan and Malaysia…
In January-May the foreign trade balance of Ukraine in goods and services reduced to a deficit of $1.647 billion, a decrease of 9.2% compared with the deficit figures for the same period last year ($1.813 billion), the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) informed. It is noted that in the reporting period the deficit of foreign…