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First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv and Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Francis Gurry have reached an agreement on a joint project to develop the National Strategy for Intellectual Property in Ukraine. “I just met with Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization Francis Gurry. It is nice that his organization has highly and positively appreciated our work in reforming our intellectual property domain. We agreed on a joint project to develop the National Intellectual Property Strategy and continue to form an extensive network of innovation support centers in Ukraine,” Kubiv wrote on his Facebook page.
Also, he said, together with WIPO, Ukraine will continue to introduce alternative procedures for resolving disputes in the field of intellectual property.
DEVELOPING, HELP, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, NATIONAL STRATEGY, UKRAINE
Ukraine in 2018 increased imports of citrus fruits by 27% compared with 2017, to 337,860 tonnes.
According to customs statistics promulgated by the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine, in monetary terms imports of citrus fruits increased by 26%, to $216.3 million.
At the same time, imports were mainly carried out from Turkey (56% in monetary terms), Egypt (14.5%), and Italy (5.7%, in 2017 Spain ranked third).
In addition, in 2018 Ukraine imported 250,900 tonnes of bananas, which is 5% more than in 2017. In monetary terms, imports grew by almost 3%, to $144.3 million.
The largest importers of bananas to Ukraine were Ecuador (47.8% of deliveries in monetary terms), Costa Rica (33%), and Colombia (6.64%).
Exports of citrus fruits from Ukraine in 2018 amounted to 411 tonnes, bananas some 28 tonnes.
