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The European Union and Ukraine have agreed on a commerce settlement for agricultural merchandise. It determines new higher limits for the duty-free import of merchandise comparable to wheat, poultry, corn and honey, as EU commerce commissioner Maros Sefcovic introduced in Brussels on Monday. The settlement is meant to exchange a transitional settlement that has been in power because the starting of June. Details of the settlement nonetheless should be labored out.

In 2022, the EU had basically abolished the tariffs on agricultural merchandise from Ukraine. The European international locations wished to help Ukraine within the warfare towards Russia. After protests from agriculture towards the cheaper competitors from Ukraine, the EU had steadily withdrawn this obligation -free. Since final yr, higher limits have initially been utilized to the obligation -free import of some merchandise, together with poultry, eggs, sugar, corn, honey and oats. This settlement had expired in early June. Since then, the import charges from the time earlier than the Russian assault warfare have been briefly apply, from which the Ukrainian farmers profit considerably much less.

For plenty of merchandise, together with wheat, poultry, eggs, sugar, corn and honey, the higher limits ought to improve in line with the Commission, however ought to stay below the import portions of the previous few years. The Commission didn’t publish actual figures. For different items, the higher limits of EU agricultural commissioner Christophe Hansen ought to improve “moderately”. All tariffs ought to be misplaced for plenty of different merchandise. This ought to apply to exploit powder, fungi and grape juice.

The Ukrainian imports had risen sharply because of the freedom of obligation, comparable to sugar. According to the Commission, the EU imported greater than half 1,000,000 tons of sugar from Ukraine in 2023 and 2024. In the 2 years earlier than, it was solely 40,000 tons. EU agricultural commissioner Christophe Hansen had already introduced in March that Ukraine will be capable to import fewer agricultural merchandise into the EU sooner or later. Farmers in international locations comparable to France and Poland had significantly demanded higher limits for wheat. In its half, Ukraine hoped for a vast entry to the EU market. Lawyers in Brussels and Kyiv should now test the main points of the brand new settlement. On the aspect of the EU, the Council of the 27 EU international locations and the European Parliament should agree.