Olha Stefanishyna named Ukraine's main claims to the new free trade agreement with the EU
Ukraine
Regulation & Compliances
Published Mar 29, 2024
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The Ukrainian government, represented by Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanishyna, is hopeful that the European Union will agree to extend trade preferences for Ukraine on March 29. A proposed compromise includes significant adjustments such as shortening the timeframe for imposing restrictions on Ukrainian agricultural imports to 14 days and extending the period for statistical evaluation for these restrictions, incorporating data from 2022-2023 and part of 2021. Despite facing some criticisms, Ukraine is in favor of the European Commission's approach to limit discussions of potential restrictions to a predefined list of goods, anticipating a positive outcome from the upcoming decision by EU ambassadors.
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The government of Ukraine hopes that the European Union will finally approve the extension of trade preferences on March 29. Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanishyna told about this, writes "European Truth". The representative of the government noted that the current compromise agreement provides for key changes, but the Ukrainian side criticizes them. One of them envisages shortening the period for the adoption of decisions by the European Union on the introduction of restrictions on agricultural imports from Ukraine to 14 days, if there are grounds. The second change concerns the extension of the period that the European Union will take into account to evaluate the statistics in case of the need to introduce restrictions. They want to take as a basis the indicator of 2022-2023 and the data obtained for half of 2021, when the import of agricultural products from Ukraine was significantly smaller. The position of the European Commission is that it is possible to discuss within the ...
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