The European Union has issued a license for the purchase of 2.8 thousand tons of Ukrainian barley as part of a duty free quota.
As of August 5, 2016 European buyers have been issued licenses for the supply of EU 2.75 ths.tons of Ukrainian barley within established for 2016 quota for duty-free import of Ukrainian agricultural products. From the beginning, the EU has issued a license for the purchase of 202.7 thous.tons of Ukrainian barley, which amounted to, respectively, 81.1% of the annual duty-free quota. Import quotas for maize in the amount of 400 thous.tons and wheat in the amount of 950 ths.tons were selected importers of 100%.
The total amount allocated to the duty-free quotas opened for 2016 in the framework of the EU autonomous trade preferences granted to Ukraine for wheat, barley and maize is 1.6 mln.tons. Thus, at the present time on the duty-free import license issued for a total volume of cereals 1 , 55 mln. tons, ie the use of a quota of 97.1%.
