The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has provided the Export Promotion Office of Ukraine with the status of the state-sustained institution, while earlier it was the consultative body at the Economic Development and Trade Ministry of Ukraine. The decision was made at a government meeting.
“State-sustained institution Export Promotion Office will fulfill the service function,” Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Trade Representative of Ukraine Natalia Mykolska said at a press briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday. According to her, among the main tasks of the Office in the status of the state-sustained institution is business consulting, training and assistance in entering foreign markets. At the same time, the Office will focuse on working with small and medium-sized enterprises (SME).
As reported, the Export Promotion Office was established in November 2016 to facilitate the entry of Ukrainian companies into foreign markets.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved a report on the national budget fulfillment in 2017, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent has reported. “This budget, the law on the national budget of Ukraine, for 2017 first in a long period of time was passed in due time, which allowed holding eligible discussion in the government and eventually with lawmakers. This discussion allowed providing for financial support of the salary increase, financing the pension reform and road repair… We continued focusing on the reduction of the deficit of the budget,” Ukrainian Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said.
He said that with the approved figure for the deficit of the national budget at 2.7% of GDP last year it was 2.6%.
Some 1,061 Ukrainians have declared income of over UAH 1 million as of March 21, which is half more than in the same period last year, the State Fiscal Service reported on its website. According to the agency, the largest sums of tax liabilities were declared by two residents of Kharkiv region – more than UAH 8 million.
In total, as of March 21 Ukrainians had submitted 130,000 tax declarations for UAH 12.3 billion, which is UAH 1.8 billion, or 13%, less than in the same period in 2017.
“The majority of citizens declared the income received in the form of wages totaling almost UAH 4.1 billion,” the agency said.
At the same time, income from inherited or property received as a gift amounted to UAH 2.1 billion, from the sale of movable and immovable property some UAH 1.1 billion, due to receipt of foreign income some UAH 400.6 million, according to the service.
Real wages in Ukraine in February 2018 increased by 10.5% compared to February 2017, while compared to January 2018 it grew by 0.6%, the State Statistics Service has said.
According to its data, the average nominal salary of full time workers in February compared with January 2018 increased by 1.5%, in annual terms it grew by 26.1%, amounting to UAH 7,828, whereas in January 2018 it stood at UAH 7,711, in December at UAH 8,777 and in November at UAH 7,479.
According to statistics, the largest growth in the average salary of full time workers in February this year compared to February 2017 was seen in Zhytomyr (31.2%), Zakarpattia (31.1%), Vinnytsia (29.3%), Cherkasy (28.9%), Lviv (28.7%), Chernivtsi (27.7%), Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk (27.6% each), Kirovohrad and Sumy (27.2%), Kyiv (26.8%), Chernihiv (26.6%) regions and Kyiv city (23.3%).
The wage growth in Donetsk and Luhansk regions (excluding certain areas) was 23.8% and 22.4% respectively.
The largest level of wages in the past month was recorded in Kyiv (UAH 12,124), the lowest one in Ternopil region (UAH 6,040).
The Ukrainian Sea Port Authority plans to carry out dredging works in the water areas of Ukrainian seaports before 2019, Head of the Ukrainian Sea Port Authority Raivis Veckagans said. “This year our goal is dredging in all ports. Today we have a number of signed agreements… on April 5, 2018 we will sign a contract for dredging in Chornomorsk,” he said. Veckagans also said that he expects an increase in the export of goods in 2018 thanks to, in particular the increase in the capacity of the ports, as well as in relation with a decrease in port dues rates.
As reported, the seaports of Ukraine in 2017 handled 132.9 million tonnes of cargo, which is 0.9% higher than in 2016.
The Ukrainian beer market has stopped falling and stabilized first in the nine years, Carlsberg Ukraine Director General Yevhen Shevchenko has said.
“According to our internal assessment, the Ukrainian beer market for the first time in nine years has stopped its decline and stabilized. The facilities of Carlsberg Ukraine are not loaded in full, so we focus not only on the beer market, but also on the development of cider and non-alcoholic portfolio – kvass and other drinks,” he told Interfax-Ukraine.
At the same time, the general director said that the company’s production capacities are sufficient for all categories of goods.
Shevchenko said that there has been a trend towards the growth of premium and super-premium segments in the past three years, but still about 70% of the market is occupied by medium- and low-price segments of beer.
“Carlsberg plans to develop all brands of the portfolio, meeting the demand. This year the company has already managed to launch two new products: Robert Doms Golden Ale and Lvivske Kneippa Zhyve, and also offered Kronenbourg 1664 Blanc in a new format – matte can of 0.33 liter,” the general director said, adding that “the company will be limited to the release of only these products in 2018.”
