In 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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Read MoreApples from South Africa are the only ones from the Southern Hemisphere that can compete on price with Ukrainian and Polish apples in the first half of the year.
These apples are traded in significant volumes in Southeast Asia, Persian Gulf countries, the EU, the UK, and locally in African markets. Apples from other Southern Hemisphere countries are consistently more expensive due to logistics.
Read MoreThe volume of exports through the Ukrainian maritime corridor in April decreased by 45% compared to April 2024, reaching 5.3 million tons.
According to the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA), Ukrainian seaports handled a total of 6 million tons of cargo in April 2025.
Read MoreThe Interdepartmental Commission on International Trade adopted several decisions to protect Ukrainian producers from unfair imports.
At the meeting, the Commission extended protective (anti-dumping) duties on imports to Ukraine for another 5 years. This applies to cement from Moldova, Russia, and Belarus (imports from the aggressor state are banned under government resolution No. 426 of April 9, 2022) and coated anti-corrosion metal products from Russia and China.
Read MoreThe ports of Izmail, Reni, and Ust-Dunaisk are functioning at less than half their capacity. In 2024, cargo handling dropped by nearly 46% to 17.3 million tons. Meanwhile, almost 80 million tons of cargo were shipped through the maritime corridor last year. Grain exports through Constanța in January-February of this year fell sixfold, and major traders, such as Nibulon, see no significant opportunities to increase grain export volumes through the Danube ports.
Read MoreThe European Commission has approved a list of transitional measures regarding Ukrainian exports to the EU, which will take effect from June 6, 2025, after the expiration of the autonomous trade measures for Ukraine, known as the “trade visa-free regime.”
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