Business news from Ukraine

Business news from Ukraine

YAVORIV INDUSTRIAL PARK REGISTERED BY ECONOMY MINISTRY

KYIV. May 5 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukraine’s Economic Development and Trade Ministry on April 26, 2017 placed the Yavoriv industrial park to the register of industrial parks. The park is the 19th park on the register.
According to a ministry’s report issued on Wednesday, a transport hub is located on the territory of the park going to Nemyriv and then crossing the customs checkpoint in Rava-Ruska to Zamosc (Poland); as well as going to Yavoriv following M10 highway to Lviv then to Krakovets and crossing the customs checkpoint to Jaroslaw (Poland).
The Hrushiv-Budomierz customs checkpoint is located 5 km far from the park. One can get to Lubaczow in Poland crossing this checkpoint.
Yavoriv district council initiated the creation of the park on 40 ha. The park has been created for the period of 30 years to develop Yavoriv district and increase its competitiveness thanks to stepping up investments activities.

DNIPROVSKY STEEL WORKS, STATE FOOD-GRAIN CORPORATION, KERNEL LARGEST RECIPIENTS OF VAT REFUNDS IN APRIL

KYIV. May 5 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Dniprovsky steel works, part of the ISD corporation, was the largest recipient of VAT in April 2017. The company received UAH 1.205 billion in April and UAH 647.8 million in March for the first time this year.
The State Treasury Service reported on Thursday that State Food-Grain Corporation received UAH 882.5 million of refunds (in March nothing was refunded), and the leader of the first three months – Kernel-Trade got UAH 667.4 million in April.
Other largest VAT recipients were ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih with UAH 453.8 million, Mariupol Illich Steel Works with UAH 376.3 million and Zaporizhstal with UAH 296.9 million, Suntrade with UAH 237.7 million, Radekhiv Tsukor with UAH 195.4 million, Cargill with UAH 191.9 million and ADM Trading Ukraine with UAH 185.1 million.
Poltava Mining received UAH 177.7 million in April, Nibulon – UAH 175.2 million and Lebedyn Seed Plant – UAH 164.7 million.
In general, UAH 11.09 billion was refunded in April, which is 11.8% more than in March 2017 and 55.5% more than in April 2016.

UKRAINIAN STATE BUDGET REVENUE 19% ABOVE TARGET IN JAN-APRIL AMID CONFISCATION INCOME

KYIV. May 5 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukraine’s national budget revenue totaled UAH 259.78 billion in January-April 2017, which is 18.9% or UAH 41.21 billion above the revenue target for the period, the State Treasury Service has reported.
Revenue increased by 51.1% or UAH 87.84 billion compared with the same period of 2016, due to receipt by the special fund on April 28 of UAH 30 billion (about $1.1 billion) in special confiscations and receipt in April of UAH 10 billion from the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), which only began paying into the budget last year in October.
The budget received UAH 85.03 billion in April alone, 42.2% above target and nearly double the revenue figure for April 2016.
Tax revenue increased by 24.8%, to UAH 109.5 billion and customs revenue increased by 30.5%, to UAH 91.07 billion, which was 3.7% and 13.6% above target respectively.
In April, tax revenue totaled UAH 18.48 billion, 7.6% less year-on-year and 13.2% below target. But customs revenue increased 27.3% year-on-year, to UAH 24.22 billion, 13.5% above target. As a result, overall budget revenue in April was 0.2% above target and 9.4% higher than in April 2016.
The Treasury also said revenue to local budgets increased 40.5% in the four months of 2017 year-on-year, to UAH 61.71 billion, including an increase of 49.8%, to UAH 18.08 billion in April alone.
Ukraine’s 2017 national budget stipulates revenue totaling UAH 731.03 billion and UAH 800.13 billion, representing increases of 18.6% and 16.8% respectively over the actual indicators in 2016.

KHERSON PLANT TO PRESENT FIRST SKIF 280 SUPERIOR COMBINE MADE ON BASIS OF FINNISH SAMPO ROSENLEW AT AGRO 2017

KYIV. May 5 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Kherson machine building plant this year started producing Skif 280 Superior grain harvester, seeking to make 10 machines a month.
According to a posting on the website of Ukraine’s Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry, the new harvester created on the basis of Finnish Sampo Rosenlew SR 3085 Superior, will be presented at the Agro 2017 international exhibition to take place in Kyiv on June 7 through June 10.
The harvester has technical specification of foreign analogs, but its price will be smaller.
As reported, Sampo Rosenlew and Kharkiv Tractor Plant in 2015 announced the launch of a joint project to produce combines. They planned to make around 200 combines in 2016 and boost production to 500 units by 2018.
However, late 2015, the project was frozen under the initiative of Finland.
Kherson machine building plant in 2013 intended to organize joint production of combines with Belarus’ Gomselmash and then it

ULIE TO WORK WITH ITALIAN CHAMBER FROM ABRUZZO

Italy feels the circumstances of the economic crisis. Therefore, closer cooperation between Italian and Ukrainian industrialists and entrepreneurs and business associations is seen as very promising. It was discussed at a meeting of President of the Ukrainian League of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (ULIE) Anatoliy Kinakh and President of the Italian Chamber for the Balkans and Ukraine Paolo Di Lullo.
The Italian Chamber is known in Ukraine primarily through sincere support of Ukrainian soldiers injured in military operations in the east of the country. Italian businessmen have in particular sponsored prosthetics and rehabilitation treatment of eight Ukrainian soldiers. Anatoly Kinakh thanked the counterparts for their care and support.
“We are a regional structure that brings together 112 entrepreneurs mainly representing small businesses in the region of Abruzzo. However, our goal is to expand business opportunities through cooperation with neighboring countries, so we have opened offices in Kyiv, Minsk, Bucharest and in Morocco,” Paolo Di Lullo said presenting the Chamber.
The parties agreed to work out a specific protocol of intentions and strengthen communication between the organizations.