Ukraine to ask EU to up agricultural quotas
Ukraine is hoping for support from the European partners of Ukrainian farming companies on the issue of raising the European Union’s quotas for Ukrainian agricultural products, Acting Minister of Economic Development and Trade Valery Pyatnytskiy said at roundtable on Tuesday. Ukraine hopes for increase in EU agricultural quotas / UNIAN Ukraine plans to discuss with the EU the possibility of increasing the quota for the duty-free supply of agricultural products to the European market, Pyatnytskiy said, according to an UNIAN correspondent. “We will raise the issue of a possible increase in tariff quotas,” Pyatnytskiy said. He said a final decision on this issue can only be taken by the EU, as the preferential trade regime for Ukrainian goods was put in effect by the EU unilaterally. “Because these are autonomous preferences, it all depends on the good will of one side. If the [association] agreement [between the EU and Ukraine] were to enter into force there would be a mechanism for negotiation. But for these autonomous preferences the EU can simply decide for itself,” the acting minister said.
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