European Parliament decision on increase in quotas on Ukrainian agricultural products will further to about $ 200 million. Estimates released by the Ministry of agrarian policy and food of Ukraine.
“The decision to increase quotas for Ukrainian agricultural products it is important for us and will allow us to expand our export opportunities. Ukraine will receive about $ 200 million in sales”, – said the head of the Department Taras Kutovoy.
According to him, the decision of the European Parliament Committee on international trade against increasing quotas on imports of Ukrainian wheat, tomatoes and urea is an intermediate stage, there will be a meeting of the European Parliament on this issue and of the Council of Ministers of the EU. The Minister expects that the final decision on the issue of quotas for Ukraine will be made before the end of may.
We will remind, the European Parliament Committee on international trade on may 4, voted against increasing the quotas on imports of Ukrainian wheat, tomatoes and urea.
In March, Ukraine has chosen the annual quota for duty-free exports to the EU in six categories of products: honey, sugar, cereals and flour, processed tomatoes grape and Apple juice and corn. A similar situation was observed last year.
