The Ukrainian export of goods to the European Union increased by 357 new commodity items over the past year, and the number of exporting companies to the EU increased from 13,402 in 2016 to 14,136 at the end of 2017, Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Ukraine’s Trade Representative Natalia Mykolska has said.
“Some 357 new commodity items appeared in exports of goods to the EU in 2017. And this is an additional $90 million. Many of the products that earlier entered the EU market showed growth,” she said.
The highest growth rates were demonstrated by artificial fabrics, apricots and cherry, milk and condensed cream, fructose, among machine building products – projectors and spare parts for them, electric kettles.
“At the same time, the EU is the main market for 460 commodity positions, i.e. we export 100% of these goods there,” the expert said.
