Moldova in January-March 2023 increased 6.5 times the export of alcoholic beverages to Ukraine – up to $ 9.40 million compared to the same period last year ($ 1.44 million), the National Bank of Moldova (NBM) said.
“With a share of 17.6% of the total export volume, Ukraine has become the main market for Moldovan alcohol, pushing Belarus and Romania to second and third place with shares of 17.1% and 14.5%, respectively,” – as quoted from NBM information, Moldovan edition mold-street.com
At the same time, Ukraine was on the first place among the importers of alcohol to Moldova, Russia – on the eighth.
In the first quarter of this year, Moldova increased the export of alcohol and ethyl alcohol by 26.8%, which in monetary terms amounted to $ 53.47 million.
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Ukraine exported in 2022/2023 marketing year (from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023) 48.996 million tons of grain and leguminous products, which is 641 thousand tons more than in 2021/2022 MY, said the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food.
During the previous marketing year, Ukraine exported 48.355 million tons of grain and leguminous products, in particular: 18.72 million tons of wheat, 5.747 million tons of barley, 161.5 thousand tons of rye and 23.409 million tons of corn.
It is noted that in 2022/2023, as of June 30, Ukraine reduced exports of wheat by 10.6% – to 16.836 million tons, barley by 52.9% – to 2.704 million tons, rye by 88.9% – to 18 thousand tons, but increased supplies of corn to foreign markets by 24.4%, which reached 29.128 million tons.
According to the report, Ukraine increased exports of all major export items of agricultural products in June 2023, in particular, 2.9 times the supplies to foreign markets of cereals and leguminous plants increased and reached 3.658 million tons. Export of wheat increased by 10.9 times – to 1.338 million tons of wheat (last June – 122 thousand tons), barley – 1.8 times – to 57 thousand tons, corn – twice – to 2.257 million tons.
Ukraine did not export rye in June 2023 and in June last year.
Since the beginning of 2022/2023 MY, Ukraine exported 153.6 thousand tons of flour, which is 2.2 times more than a year earlier, when exports were 70.7 thousand tons.
According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, Ukraine exported more than 22.5 million tons of grain in January-May 2023, including more than 14.3 million tons of corn, more than 7.2 million tons of wheat and more than 977 thousand tons of barley.
Hungarian Minister of Agriculture Istvan Nagy is not satisfied with the work of European solidarity corridors and believes that the expansion of the traditional maritime transport route, which now takes only 12% of Ukrainian agricultural products, will help to reduce the pressure on domestic markets of the EU.
“The current solidarity routes are not fulfilling their role, as the products remain in Ukraine’s neighboring countries. We used to have 40-50 thousand tons of grain, now we have 2.5 million tons. The purpose is to expand the traditional sea transport route, by which now only 12% of Ukrainian products leave. This will reduce the load on the land route and reduce the pressure on EU domestic markets,” the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture quoted him as saying at a press conference with his Polish counterpart Robert Telusz in Warsaw on Thursday.
Nagy said he had asked his Polish counterpart for a mandate to negotiate with the Turkish side to open new sea routes for grain exports in addition to the existing three Black Sea ports.
He called it important to maintain and expand cooperation among the five EU member states. “We are determined to continue to cooperate (…) to find a common European solution to this problem; it is an important humanitarian and solidarity goal,” the Hungarian minister stressed.
Nagy praised the joint actions of the five EU member states – Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia, as well as Poland and Hungary – in suspending imports of Ukrainian grain. Thanks to the joint implementation of the will “today we can protect our borders and farmers as a result of measures of the European Union, not national measures,” he said, and expressed regret that the restrictive measures are valid only until September 15.
Hungarian and Polish ministers stated that the restriction period until Sept. 15 was too short. “For example, the corn harvest will still be going on, so we definitely need to push for the extension (of restrictive measures – IF),” Nagy said.
Polish Minister of Agriculture Robert Telusz called important the Hungarian initiative to expand the Black Sea Route, which he said Warsaw would support. At the same time, he stressed the need for the development of land transport routes.
Telusz praised the merits of the Hungarian side in the creation of the five-member coalition on the grain issue. He noted that without the actions of this association the European Commission “would not have seen the problem at all”.
The Polish minister also stressed the importance of maintaining this alliance. “Together we can fight not only for issues important to our countries, but also for the future of Europe,” he said.
According to him, after the war is over, the process of Ukraine’s integration into the European Union can continue, and with it, “the issue of Ukrainian products will come up again.” “If today we do not make the European Commission develop real tools to solve this problem, the problem will have unpleasant consequences,” Telusz said.
He also said that he agreed with his Hungarian colleague to organize a meeting with Ukrainian Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Nicholas Solsky to find common solutions to solve the problem of grain imports.
Ukraine in 2022-23 marketing year (MY) increased sunflower exports by 14% and reduced its processing by 83%, producing its lowest volume since 2009-2010 MY, said oil market analyst at APK-Inform Svetlana Kirichok.
“During the season, there was a record and uncontrolled export of sunflower from Ukraine, which occurred against the background of a decline in oil refining and export of sunflower oil due to the limited work of the ports. The main volume of exports (79%) for September-May came to the EU countries, namely Romania and Bulgaria, which at the expense of Ukrainian raw materials substantially loaded their own enterprises and managed to increase the export of sunflower oil,” – she explained.
According to Kirichok, the imposition of unilateral bans on imports of sunflower to the EU has led to the fact that in April the export of Ukrainian oilseeds fell to its lowest level since April 2022, and a very large amount of sunflower was redirected to the domestic market.
The expert predicts that sunflower exports from Ukraine in 2022-23 MY will reach 2 million tons, which will be a historical maximum for the industry.
“According to our estimate, at the beginning of June, the sunflower balances (conditionally for the whole country) were about 1.6 million tons, which is one of the lowest for many years, and even with minimal export volumes they will not be able to provide full work of processing enterprises in June-August,” – she said.
In general, since the beginning of 2022/23 MY in Ukraine was processed about 10.5 million tons of oilseeds, which was one of the lowest rates over the past seven seasons. Until the end of the current season (in June-August) may be processed about 1.2 million tons – this is the minimum for this period over the past 12 seasons, the expert stated.
Kirichok expects an increase in sunflower production in 2023 due to the expansion of cultivated area to 5.5 million hectares, which is 13% more than a year earlier. At the same time, the total supply of oilseeds will decrease by 10% due to the reduction of carry-over stocks and yield potential, which will happen due to the prolonged sowing season and saving by agrarians of material and technical resources, in particular pesticides.
“If sunflower exports will show rates close to those of 2021/22-2022/23 MY, and exports from deep-sea ports will remain unstable, the country is expected to further reduce processing volumes,” summarized the expert.
Dynamics of export of goods in 2021-2022
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Export changes in % to previous period in 2022-2023
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