Since the beginning of 2025, the Export Credit Agency (ECA) has supported Ukrainian exports by UAH 1.79 billion.
A total of UAH 72.96 million in bank loans for exporters was insured. Entrepreneurs from Khmelnytskyi (UAH 1.31 billion), Zaporizhia (UAH 230.4 million), and Ternopil (UAH 130.65 million) regions most actively took advantage of the opportunity to insure export contracts and loans in January-February.
Read MoreCompared to last year, the volume of imports over two months increased by nearly 340,000 tons, reaching 759,000 tons. The leaders are nitrogen fertilizers.
Imports of phosphorus and nitrogen-phosphorus fertilizers also increased, reaching 100,000 tons. The main types of NPK fertilizers imported reached 183,000 tons. Imports of PK and potassium fertilizers are not recovering as quickly, but they still reached a level of 23,000 tons.
Read MoreThe State Service of Ukraine on Food Safety and Consumer Protection continues its efforts to expand markets, and work has already begun on 31 new markets that Ukrainian enterprises aim to enter for export.
Last year, 22 domestic food producers received permission to export their products to the EU (12 of them are producers of poultry meat and related products, 3 are fish processing enterprises, and 5 are dairy processing companies).
Read MoreThe Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, Vitaliy Koval, and the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry of the Republic of Turkey, Ibrahim Yumakli, signed a protocol on expanding cooperation in the agricultural sector.
This involves increasing trade volumes of poultry meat, milk and dairy products, honey, large and small cattle, vegetables, oil, fruits, and organic products.
Read MoreDuring the 18 months of operation of the Ukrainian sea corridor, 100 million tons of cargo were transported.
Of the total volume of cargo transported over the past 18 months, 65 million tons are agricultural products. The number of vessels that passed through the Ukrainian Sea Corridor in 18 months is 3,751.
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Read MoreA distinctive feature of 2024 was the change in the ranking of the biggest buyers of Ukrainian food products.
Spain took the lead, rising from 5th place in the top 10 in 2023. While the value of supplies from Ukraine to Spain in 2023 were 1,765 million USD, it increased by one and a half times in 2024 to 2,679 million USD. Spain’s share in food exports reached 10.8%.
Read MorePress cake is responsible for more than 3% of Ukraine’s exports. Last year, 4.8 million tons of sunflower press cake were sold abroad for $1.03 billion, and 725,000 tons of soybean press cake for $304 million. Sunflower press cake is primarily exported to China (31.5%) and Poland (12%), while soybean press cake goes mainly to Poland (46%) and Hungary (24%). Press cake is used as animal feed and as a component in the production of complete compound feeds and feed mixtures.
Read MoreDuring the first official visit to Ukraine by Nadia Calviño, President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group, agreements were signed for support programs with a total budget of approximately 1 billion EUR.
Read MoreThroughout January 2025, Ukraine imported goods worth $5.5 billion and exported goods worth $3.2 billion. The countries from which Ukraine imported the most goods were: China - $1.4 billion, Poland - $487 million, and Turkey - $389 million.
Ukraine exported the most to Poland - $352 million, Italy - $205 million, and Spain - $202 million. The top three categories of goods exported from Ukraine included:
Read MoreFrom October 2024 to January 2025, Turkey imported 1.86 million tons of Ukrainian corn, which is nearly 10 times more than during the same period of the previous season, when import volumes amounted to only 194,000 tons.
As a result, Turkey overtook Spain and became the top importer of Ukrainian corn. Spain imported 1.5 million tons of Ukrainian corn over the same four-month period.
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