It is now known who won the fight over import quotas for sugar, chicken, and eggs from Ukraine

The European Commission yesterday proposed to renew, for another year, the suspension of import duties and quotas on Ukrainian exports to the EU, whose current regime expires on June 5, 2024. Therefore, if the European Parliament and the Council approves the proposal, Ukrainian imports will continue to enter without tariff until June 5, 2025. The EC has detected three sensitive products (sugar, poultry meat and eggs) for which it proposes establishing import quotas. The question was what dates were going to be taken to determine quota volumes, taking into account that Ukrainian exports have skyrocketed after the war. The Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, challenged his Trade counterpart, proposing to take into consideration the average imports of the three years prior to the war, but he has lost the fight. Finally, the years 2022 and 2023 will be considered, as reflected in the EC proposal. Specifically, the proposed regulation establishes that if during the ...