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Ukraine Must Look Beyond the EU for Its Agricultural Future
- The European Union will end Ukraine's tariff-free trade regime on June 5, 2025, affecting agricultural exports to EU markets.
- This decision comes in response to political pressure within the EU, particularly from Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who led efforts to end the Autonomous Trade Measures implemented following Russia's invasion.
- Starting June 6, import quotas will return to the pre-conflict annual limits, scaled down to cover only the remaining seven months of the year. This adjustment will decrease Ukrainian wheat exports from six million tons to around one million tons, and corn exports from 4.7 million tons to approximately 650,000 tons.
- Ukrainian officials warn the end of trade benefits could cost over €3 billion, or about 70% of its 2025 projected economic growth, while EU officials estimate the impact closer to €1.5 billion.
- This rollback suggests Ukraine must diversify beyond the EU to stabilize its agricultural sector and maintain a key role in global food security amid uncertain trade talks.
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Ukraine must look beyond the EU for its agricultural future
The end of the European Union’s tariff-free trade preferences for Ukrainian agricultural products is more than just a policy change, it’s a wake-up call.For years, the EU has served as the largest and most reliable market for Ukraine’s agricultural exports. But as Brussels rolls back preferential quotas, Ukraine must rapidly diversify and open up new non-EU markets to safeguard its economy and cement its role in global food security.Ukraine stan…
From June 5, the simplified conditions for the export of Ukrainian products to the EU come to an end.
The European Union's reintroduction of high tariffs on some Ukrainian agricultural products will damage not only the country's economy, which is defending itself against Russian aggression, but also its trust in its European partners, Dmytro Natalucha, chairman of the Ukrainian parliament's economic affairs committee, told the Brussels-based Politico website. The current duty-free regime, introduced in 2022, will end on June 5.
Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration — Minister of Justice Olga Stefanishina assured that at the moment there is no talk of any termination of EU free trade with Ukraine, the European market remains open for Ukrainian goods.
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