In January-May 2025, imports of tin and tin products to Ukraine increased by 70.5% to $1.739 million. In May, products worth $568 thousand were imported.
At the same time, tin exports decreased by 41.1% to $86 thousand compared to $146 thousand last year. In May, exports amounted to $30 thousand.
For the whole of 2024, tin imports increased by 16.9% to $3.188 million, while exports increased by 2.5 times to $389 thousand. In 2023, imports amounted to $2.728 million, while exports amounted to $159 thousand.
Imports of trucks to Ukraine in January-May 2025 amounted to $389.55 million in monetary terms, which is only 1% higher than the volume for the same period in 2024 ($386.02 million), according to statistics from the State Customs Service.
According to the published data, in particular, in May, imports of these vehicles increased by 18.7% compared to May 2024 – up to $102.8 million.
Most of the trucks were imported from Poland – $81.5 million (20.9% of imports), the United States – $74.4 million (19.1%), and France – $59.8 million (15.4%).
A year ago, the top three truck-supplying countries were Poland (21.4% of total truck imports, or $82.5 million), France (11.5%, or $44.5 million) and the United States (10.8%, or $41.6 million).
Imports from all other countries decreased by 20% to $173.8 million in January-May this year.
At the same time, according to statistics, Ukraine exported only $3 million worth of trucks over five months, mostly to Romania (52.6% of truck exports), Turkey, and Moldova, compared to even smaller deliveries abroad ($1 million) a year ago.
As reported, in 2024, imports of trucks to Ukraine in monetary terms increased by 30% compared to 2023 – up to $947.84 million, most of them were imported from Poland (almost 20%).
In January-May 2025, Ukraine imported zinc and zinc products worth $21.319 million, down 8.1% compared to the same period in 2024. In May, imports amounted to $6.237 million.
Exports of zinc products increased to $523 thousand against $84 thousand in the first five months of 2024. In May 2025, $113 thousand were exported.
In 2024, zinc imports reached $58.610 million (+27.5% compared to 2023), while exports amounted to $563 thousand. In 2023, imports were $45.966 million and exports were $130 thousand.
Zaporozhkoks, one of Ukraine’s largest coke and chemical producers and a member of Metinvest Group, reduced blast furnace coke production by 0.3% year-on-year to 434.1 thousand tons from 435.3 thousand tons in January-June this year.
According to the company, it produced 76.3 thousand tons of coke in June, compared to 76 thousand tons in the previous month.
As reported, Zaporozhkoks increased its blast furnace coke production by 2.1% in 2024 compared to 2023 – to 874.7 thousand tons from 856.8 thousand tons.
“In 2023, Zaporozhkoks increased its blast furnace coke production by 16% compared to 2022, up to 856.8 thousand tons from 737.4 thousand tons.
“Zaporozhkoks has a full technological cycle of processing coke products.
“Metinvest is a vertically integrated mining group of companies. Its major shareholders are SCM Group (71.24%) and Smart Holding (23.76%). Metinvest Holding LLC is the management company of Metinvest Group.
Global coffee bean production in the 2025/2026 agricultural season will increase by 2.5% to reach a record 178.68 million bags (60 kg each), according to a report by the US Department of Agriculture.
At the same time, the arabica harvest will decrease by 1.7% to 97.02 million bags, while robusta will increase by 7.9% to 81.66 million bags.
Due to the increase in production, global carryover stocks will increase by 4.9% to 22.82 million bags by the end of the season.
“During the current week, coffee prices fell, in particular for Arabica fell to a 5.5-month low amid reports of improved weather conditions in the Brazilian coffee-growing states of São Paulo and Minas Gerais,” the report said.
As reported, at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, the world market saw a high growth in coffee prices. Thus, in February, coffee prices doubled in annual terms. In particular, this was due to the fact that traders were worried about the prospect of insufficient supplies from Brazil, which is the largest producer of Arabica coffee.
In Ukraine, in June 2025, milk in film, kefir in tetrapak and glass, cottage cheese and Suluguni cheese fell in price, while other dairy products rose in price, the Association of Milk Producers (AMP) reported.
The industry association noted that pasteurized milk with a fat content of up to 2.6% in the film in June 2025 averaged 45.65 UAH/kg, which is 75 kopecks (-2%) less than in the previous month, but 6.48 UAH (+17%) more than in the same period last year.
Pasteurized milk with a fat content of up to 2.6% in a plastic bottle averaged 63.81 UAH/kg, which is 21 kopecks (+0.3%) more than in May and 12.29 UAH/kg (+24%) more than in June 2024. Kefir with a fat content of 2.5% in the film cost an average of 55.54 UAH/kg, which is 37 kopecks (+1%) more than a month ago and 7.98 UAH (+17%) compared to last June.
Sour cream with a fat content of 15% in glasses averaged 191.13 UAH/kg, which is 4.04 UAH (+2%) more than in the previous month and 51.17 UAH/kg (+37%) compared to the same period last year.
The average price for drinking yogurt from 1.6% to 2.8% in plastic bottles amounted to UAH 116.44/kg and was UAH 2.15 (+1.9%) higher than in May and UAH 23.24 (+25%) higher than a year ago.
The average price for cottage cheese with a fat content of 9% was UAH 279.80/kg and was UAH 7.39 (-3%) lower than the average price of the previous month, but UAH 56.50 (+25%) higher than the price in June last year.
Domestically produced butter with a fat content of 72.5% to 73% costs an average of UAH 584.82 per kg, which is UAH 11.18 (+1.9%) more than in the previous month and UAH 162.63 (+39%) more than a year ago.
Dutch cheese with a fat content of 45% averaged 590.64 UAH/kg. Compared to the previous month, the product went up by UAH 12.77 (+2%), and compared to the previous year, it went up by UAH 139.41 (+31%).
The average price of Gouda cheese with 45% fat content from Ukrainian companies averaged 593.14 UAH/kg, exceeding the price of the previous month by 5.74 UAH (+1%), and last June by 131.50 UAH (+28%).
Over the past month, prices for pasteurized milk with a fat content of up to 2.6% in film, kefir with a fat content of 2.5% in tetrapak and glass, cottage cheese with a fat content of 9%, and Suluguni cheese have fallen in Ukraine. Prices for other dairy products in the consumer basket either remained unchanged or went up by 2.9% on average, said AVM analyst Giorgi Kukhaleishvili, quoted in the report.
He noted that butter is rising in price following high global commodity prices. In particular, the price of butter in the EU in May was at the level of EUR7200-7400 per ton, which is almost a record high that has not been recorded since 2017-2018.
Increased supply and consumption of imported cheeses in the domestic market hampers sales of domestic cheese producers. The share of imported cheeses in the domestic market reached 47%, the association stated.
