Bloomberg: EU to Temporarily Reintroduce Quotas on Ukrainian Agri-Products
The European Union has decided to temporarily reintroduce quotas on imports of certain agricultural products from Ukraine, a European Commission spokesman said.
The Gaze reports on this with reference to Bloomberg.
The restrictions, which were cancelled in 2022 amid Russia's full-scale invasion, will come into force again on 6 June 2025.
However, the quotas are a temporary measure, and the EU is working on revising the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area with Ukraine, the spokesman said.
The renewal of the quotas, which will be in effect until the end of 2025, means that Ukraine will be able to export only 7/12 of the annual volume of these products.
No EU member state voted against the decision, but eight countries, including Germany, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Denmark and Lithuania, abstained.
On 22 May, the European Commission adopted a list of transitional measures for Ukrainian exports to the EU, which will come into force on 6 June 2025 after the expiry of autonomous trade measures for Ukraine, known as "trade visa-free regime".
The European Commission does not plan to extend the "trade visa-free regime", which is valid until 5 June, but will ensure a smooth transition to the new scheme, where all the terms of trade liberalisation will be set out in a free trade agreement between Ukraine and the EU.
The European Parliament has voted to introduce a preferential regime for Ukraine's steel and iron exports from 6 June 2025.
As The Gaze reported earlier, the Ukrainian government was working with the European Commission to avoid a return to the trade regime that was in place until 2022.