The Romanian government has extended the mandatory licensing requirement for Ukrainian agricultural products until December 31, 2025, to protect local farmers.
Romania’s Minister of Agriculture urged local processors to “obtain raw materials from domestic farmers to support national agricultural production.” The regulation applies to all participants in the agri-food supply chain, including producers, processors, and traders.
Read MoreIn May 2025, Ukrainian metallurgical enterprises exported 162,360 tons of commercial pig iron, a 35.1% increase compared to the previous month and an 82.1% rise compared to May 2024.
The US received 105,560 tons of pig iron in May (-8.6% month-on-month; +37% year-on-year), Poland received 2,480 tons (-27% month-on-month; -61.3% year-on-year), and Italy received 10,000 tons.
Read MoreIn May 2025, Ukraine’s IT services exports declined to $545 million, a 4.2% drop compared to the previous month, resulting in a $24 million reduction in revenue for the Ukrainian economy compared to April.
This figure is also $15 million (or 2.7%) lower than in May 2024.
The main partner countries for Ukraine remain the United States, the United Kingdom, Malta, Cyprus, and Israel.
Read MoreThe European Investment Fund (EIF), part of the European Investment Bank Group, and Finnvera, Finland’s export credit agency, are launching a €30 million pilot project to support Finnish exports to Ukraine. The agreement enables Finnvera to provide Finnish companies trading with Ukraine with export credits backed by EIF guarantees under the InvestEU export credit guarantee instrument.
Read MoreIn May 2025, the Export Credit Agency (ECA) supported 1.14 billion UAH in exports by insuring 8 loans reaching 68.4 million UAH, issued by Ukrainian banks to entrepreneurs for fulfilling export contracts.
Read MoreIn June 2025, Ukraine exported 3.4 million tons of agricultural products, a 23.8% decrease compared to the previous month.
The structure of agricultural exports in June 2025 was as follows:
Read MoreHesburger Ukraine intends to invest more than €12 million to open at least 10 new restaurants in Ukraine’s western regions over the next 5 years.
The Finnish family-owned fast-food chain, Hesburger, was founded in 1966. As of 2025, it operates over 480 restaurants in 9 countries, including Ukraine, where 7 restaurants are currently located in Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, employing approximately 75 staff members.
Read MoreIn January-May 2025, Ukraine boosted its processed cast iron exports by 45.2% in physical terms compared to the same period last year, rising from 507,106 tons to 736,418 tons.
Over this period, cast iron exports in monetary terms increased by 53.2%, reaching $290.546 million.
Exports were primarily directed to the USA (79.11% of shipments in monetary terms), Italy (10.23%), and Turkey (5.90%).
Read MoreIn June, the volume of agricultural exports from Ukraine by road transport reached 262,700 tons, a 19% decrease compared to May.
Read MoreUkraine sold 19,200 tons of honey on foreign markets in January-May 2025, according to the State Customs Service. The country earned $41.57 million from honey exports.
Starting June 6, 2025, updated rules for trading Ukrainian agricultural products with the EU came into effect.
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