The EU is going to impose increased import duties from Ukraine- FT

Financial Times, with reference to informed interlocutors, wrote that the European Union could introduce much higher duties on Ukrainian imports in a few weeks.

Source: “European Truth” With reference to Financial Times

Details: According to the interlocutors, the decision to introduce higher duties on Ukrainian imports is related to plans to terminate a special duty -free regime, which was introduced in 2022 after a full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation.

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According to them, this decision was made after Poland initiated the protection of EU farmers.

The EU has a current free trade agreement with Ukraine, but after the invasion of Russia in 2022 temporarily abolished residual duties. These arrangements are coming to emerge on June 6, and the EU plans to replace them with « transitional measures » as the parties update the general trade agreement.

However, informed diplomats noted that the recently presented EU member states will be significantly reduced-including quotas for duty-free imports of agricultural products, which is critical for Ukrainian farmers and budget.

When the duty -free regime was introduced in 2022, it extended to Ukrainian products – poultry, wheat and sugar, most of which were transported through EU countries to Africa and Asia.

However, farmers and politicians in Poland, France and other EU countries soon accused Ukrainian exports of reducing domestic prices. This issue has become dominant in Polish politics.

According to diplomats, on the eve of the presidential elections, Warsaw appealed to the European Commission to postpone trade talks with Kiev to reduce the chances of winning the nationalist opposition candidate Karol Navrotsky.

The European Commission has confirmed the newspaper that the arrangements will not be renewed, « as we are currently working on watching the » Free Trade Agreement between the EU and Ukraine.

« The Commission also considers possible transitional measures if the negotiations are not completed and applied until June 6, » he added.

Two EU diplomats have reported that the transitional measures of the European Commission provide for the division of an annual duty -free quota into 12 months to reduce imports during the negotiation period.

According to them, corn, sugar, honey and poultry are most affected. The annual corn quota will be reduced from 4.7 million tons to 650 thousand tons. The bird – from 57.1 thousand to 40 thousand tons, and sugar – from 109 thousand to 40.7 thousand tons.

The Chairman of the Committee on Trade in the European Parliament Bernd Lange believes that it is « a really bad signal for Ukraine. »

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