Kyiv is not against new restrictions on the import of Ukrainian agricultural products, but the EU should ban imports from the Russian Federation.
Ukraine is ready to accept trade restrictions with the EU to ease a political dispute with Poland, but is calling on the bloc to ban Russian grain imports. This is what the Deputy Minister of Economy and Trade Representative of Ukraine Taras Kachka said, reports the Financial Times.
Kyiv is pushing for new restrictions on the import of Ukrainian agricultural products, although the EU should also ban the export of Russian agricultural products that still enter the bloc through Belarus and the states of Baltic.
“Perhaps, for the transition period, this kind of managed approach to trade flows between Ukraine and the EU is what we all need,” suggested Kachka.
At the same time, he emphasized that in the matter of grain, “it is not Ukraine that causes problems for Polish farmers, but Russia.”
Kyiv supports new measures proposed by Brussels to impose restrictions on the import of eggs, poultry and sugar from June, as well as allowing individual countries to close their markets to Ukrainian grain, except for onward travel to other countries.
“We have voluntarily stopped allowing the export of maize to all five neighboring member states. Despite this, we have exported another new record of 15 million tonnes of maize in the calendar year 2023. Therefore, there is we have strong demand in other countries. Ukraine fills the EU’s production shortfalls,” Kachka explained.
As you know, Polish farmers have been blocking the Ukrainian border for several weeks. They do not allow trucks to pass through the checkpoint, and also destroy Ukrainian agricultural products.
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