In January-April 2025, Ukraine imported 3,600 tons of pork, a 3.8-fold increase compared to the same period last year.
In monetary terms, pork imports for the first four months of 2025 grew 3.5 times compared to the same period in 2024, reaching $8.5 million.
During January-April 2025, pork was primarily imported from Europe: Denmark (74.22%), Poland (11.6%), and the Netherlands (7.5%).
Read MoreUkraine’s total trade turnover for the first four months of 2025 reached $38.1 billion.
The largest export destinations were Poland ($1.6 billion), Turkey ($932 million), and Italy ($843 million).
The top three exported goods from Ukraine were: food products ($7.6 billion), metals and metal products ($1.5 billion), and machinery, equipment, and transport ($1.2 million).
Read MoreAccording to the former head of the Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine (GTSOU), the current average daily import is about 14.5 million cubic meters. However, to accumulate 13.6 billion cubic meters by November 1, imports need to increase two- to threefold.
Slovakia has the highest import capacity, at 42 million cubic meters per day.
Read MorePolish cement producers are urging the European Commission to impose quotas on cement imports from Ukraine, limiting them to 360,000 tons per year. This is nearly half the volume of 2024, when Poland imported over 650,000 tons of Ukrainian cement, according to the report.
Read MoreTo support the export of Ukrainian-origin goods, the State Customs Service issues EUR.1 certificates of origin. These certificates exempt Ukrainian goods from import duties when exported to the EU, EFTA countries, Montenegro, the United Kingdom, Georgia, and Israel.
Read MoreIn the first four months of 2025, Ukraine imported 1,400 tons of live poultry (chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, and guinea fowl), a 7.7% increase compared to the same period last year.
The cost of imports increased by 5.8% compared to the first four months of 2024, reaching $27.3 million. The largest suppliers of live poultry to Ukraine in January-April 2025 were Poland (31%), Germany (24.7%), and Hungary (23.5%).
Read MoreExport purchase prices for corn in Ukraine continue to decline due to low demand, falling wheat prices, and low prices for American corn.
Read MoreThe return from June 6 to the pre-war trade regime between Ukraine and the European Union (DCFTA) will also mean the return of restrictions on 30 product groups instead of seven.that were in autonomous trading events (ATMs).
Read MoreEntrepreneurs will be able to use both old and new rules for trade with the EU until the end of 2025. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed the law on the ratification of Decision No. 2/2024 of the Joint Committee of the Regional Convention on Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Preferential Rules of Origin. The document will allow Ukraine to trade freely with European Union countries during the transition to the updated rules of the convention, which came into effect on January 1, 2025.
Read MoreAccording to a recently published EU analytical report on organic product imports in 2024, Ukraine ranked third among non-EU countries supplying organic products.
The volume of organic product exports from Ukraine to the EU reached 203,800 tons (+17.4% compared to 2023).
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