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The new trade agreement between Ukraine and the EU is awaiting final approval by the European Commission. This was announced by Deputy Minister of Economy, Environment and Agriculture Taras Vysotsky in an interview with Forbes. According to him, the parties have not yet reached a consensus on the volume of export quotas for sugar and

Ukraine has completely exhausted the European Union's quota for honey, and has also almost completely exhausted the quota for sugar. This was reported by UNIAN in the Ukrainian Club of Agrarian Business (UKAB). "We have completely exhausted the quota for honey. Its volume was at 3.5 thousand tons and they are already exhausted. The quota for sugar is almost exhausted - for this transition period '7/12' we had 11.7 thousand tons," said Oleksandra Avramenko, head of the UKAB committee on European integration. Also, Ukraine has almost exhausted the quotas for the supply of powdered milk (according to other data, the quota for the export of this product has already been exhausted). "The capacity of the quota was slightly more than 2900 tons," notes a UKAB specialist. In addition, the quota for eggs has been exhausted, but the story with the export of this product is somewhat different from all other tariff quotas. "Eggs are exported under the world quota of the European Union, ...

The National Association of Sugar Producers of Ukraine (Ukrtsukor) together with leading agricultural associations that are part of the All-Ukrainian Agricultural Forum (VAF) have addressed Denmark, as the country presiding over the EU Council, and all member states with an urgent call to approve the new trade conditions between Ukraine and the European Union as soon as possible. Farmers emphasize that although the reached agreements do not meet expectations and represent a step back compared to the Autonomous Trade Preferences (ATP) regime that was in effect over the past three years, their prompt approval is critically important. According to preliminary estimates, limited access to the EU market may cause losses of up to 900 million euros for the Ukrainian agricultural sector, and redirecting products to third-country markets will cause additional losses of up to 1.7 billion euros. "These losses create additional pressure on the only front-line state in Europe, whose defenders ...