According to the European Commissioner, Romania and Bulgaria are seeing a “problematic” increase in sunflower oil imports from Ukraine.
The European Union should revise the free trade agreement with Ukraine and introduce restrictions on the import of certain food products. It was announced on Wednesday, December 7, by the European Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski, writes Politico.
“Helping Ukraine is our strategic priority and it is non-negotiable. It is a security issue, but for some products this policy needs to be reviewed. Imports of some agricultural products has actually increased several times after the opening of trade with Ukraine,” Voitskhovsky said, speaking via video link at the event in the upper house of the Polish Parliament on the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy.
He noted that Ukraine “arrived in large quantities” of corn, rapeseed and chicken meat. According to the European Commissioner, Romania and Bulgaria have already announced “problematic” increases in sunflower oil imports from Ukraine.
Wojciechowski said the decision to impose duties on food products from Ukraine “will depend on many commissioners,” but “I believe there is a problem. Where these exports have clearly increased, I will promote restrictions.”
It should be noted that before that, the EU said it was important to provide the possibility of unlimited food exports from Ukraine, which is a necessary condition to help the country’s war-torn economy.
It should be noted that since the beginning of the war, Ukraine has exported 32.2 million tons of agricultural products.
Earlier, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy said that the power outage will not affect the cost of food and will not cause shortages.
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