KYIV. Jan 20 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukraine fully used the European Union’s tariff quotas for the supply of maize, wheat, poultry, honey, oats, grape and apple juice, processed tomatoes, barley groats, and flour in 2015, the Ukrainian Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food has reported.
What is more, the sugar quota was used by 99%, that of malt and wheat gluten by 73%, starch by 9.6%, ethanol by 4.5%, garlic by 8.8%, and barley by 77.7%.
As reported, Ukraine is allowed to supply 36 groups of commodities to the EU on a duty-free basis within the quotas approved under the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement.
Namely, the beef quota is set at 12,000 tonnes, that of milk, yoghurt, fermented milk products at 8,000 tonnes, milk powder at 1,500 tonnes, creamery butter at 1,500 tonnes, egg products at 1,500 tonnes, eggs at 3,000 tonnes, and pork at 40,000 tonnes.
Tariff quotas within the EU’s autonomous trade preferences are set at 950,000 tonnes for wheat, 250,000 tonnes for barley, 400,000 tonnes for maize, 20,00 tonnes for sugar, 5,000 tonnes for honey,10,000 tonnes for, processed tomatoes, 10,000 tonnes for grape and apple juice, 4,000 tonnes for oats, and 500 tonnes for garlic.
