Ukrainian exporters this year will use the opportunities for 31 out of 40 tariff quotas for duty-free supplies of agricultural products to the European Union, as of the end of August, eight tariff quotas have already been fully used, the Development Director of the Ukrainian Horticultural Association, UN FAO International Consultant Yekateryna Zvereva has said.
“In 2020, Ukrainian exporters will take advantage of 31 out of 40 tariff quotas. As of the end of August, eight tariff quotas have already been fully used: honey, barley and flour, processed tomatoes, processed starch, grape and apple juices, corn, malt and starch products, sugar. Tariff quotas are used for cereals (81.2%), eggs and albumin (75%), poultry (73.4%), starch (73.3%), malt and wheat gluten (72.2%), additional quotas for eggs and albumin (60.4%), bran, waste and residues (55.2%), additional quota for poultry (53.1%), oats (45.3%), wheat (40.2%), etc.,” she wrote in a column for the Interfax-Ukraine agency.
According to Zvereva, in 2016-2019 the positive dynamics of development of trade with the European Union, which today is the main trade partner of Ukraine with a share of more than 41% of the total volume of trade in goods, is obvious. Trade in goods with high added value is gradually growing.
National bank of Ukraine’s official rates as of 02/10/20
Source: National Bank of Ukraine
Official rates of banking metals from national bank as of October 02
One troy ounce=31.10 grams
The mobile operator Kyivstar has installed 157 new base stations for the 4G network, connecting another 432 settlements in 17 regions of Ukraine to high-speed mobile Internet using LTE technology.
According to the company’s statement, 326,000 people live in these settlements. In particular, these are Novy Rozdil, Lymna (Lviv region), Dolynska, Nova Praha, Novhorodka (Kirovohrad region), Sribne (Chernihiv region), Zarychanka, Trebukhivtsi (Khmelnytsky region), Katerynka (Mykolaiv region), Sivashske, Novoraisk (Kherson region), Moshny (Cherkasy region), etc.
To expand the territory of the 4G network, Kyivstar will include 157 additional base stations. Of these, 38 have already been launched at GSM-900, 19 at GSM-1800.
Kyivstar continues to develop 4G communications at 1800 MHz, 2600 MHz and 900 MHz and has already connected more than 15,000 settlements to high-speed mobile Internet.
Ukraine in January-June 2020 increased gross natural gas consumption by 1.2% (by 190 million cubic meters) compared to the same period in 2019, to 15.66 billion cubic meters.
According to the quarterly monitoring data of the National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission of Ukraine (NEURC), in the second quarter of this year, consumption increased by 17.6% (720 million cubic meters) compared to April-June 2019, to 4.8 billion cubic meters.
The use of natural gas by household consumers (the population) in the first half of 2020 amounted to 4.76 billion cubic meters (6.5% less from January-June 2019), in the second quarter 1.17 billion cubic meters (31.5% more against April-June 2019).
Thus, the share of household consumers in the total structure of gross consumption in the first half of the year amounted to 30.4% against 32.9% in January-June 2019.
Real wages in Ukraine in August 2020 increased by 6% compared to August 2019, and decreased by 2.8% from July 2020, the State Statistics Service has said.
According to the State Statistics Service, the average nominal wages of full-time employees in August 2020 compared to the previous month decreased by 3%, and in annual terms (from August 2019) increased by 8.6%, amounting to UAH 11,446, which is 2.4 times more than the level of the minimum wage (UAH 4,723).
The agency clarifies that in July of this year it was UAH 11,804, in June UAH 11,579, in May UAH 10,542, in April UAH 10,430, in March UAH 11,446, in February UAH 10,847, January some UAH 10,727.
According to the statistics department, the largest increase in the average wage of full-time employees in August 2020 compared to the same month a year earlier was observed in Ternopil (by 14.9%), Mykolaiv (by 13.7%), Kirovohrad (by 13%), Sumy (by 12.4%), Chernihiv (by 12.3%), Chernivtsi (by 12.2%), Ivano-Frankivsk (by 12.1%), Khmelnytsky (by 11.9%) Rivne (by 11.7%), Luhansk (10.2%), and Zhytomyr (10.1%) regions.
The highest level of wages in the past month was observed in Kyiv (UAH 16,795), the lowest one in Chernivtsi region (UAH 8,996).
In August 2020 from August a year earlier, wages in provision of other services rose by 27.3%, in healthcare and social protection by 20.1%, in the field of arts, sports and entertainment by 19.5%, information and telecommunications by 15.1%, in the field of administrative, support services by 14.6%, in education by 11.8%, professional, scientific and technical activities by 10.1%, in agriculture, forestry and fisheries by 8.6%, at industrial enterprises by 7.2%, in real estate operations by 6%, in financial and insurance activities by 5.6%, in construction and in the sphere of wholesale and retail trade by 4.1%, in the field of public administration and defense, compulsory social insurance by 4%, at transport, storage facilities, in postal and courier activities by 2.7%.
