Ukrainian Parliament Asks EU to Extend ‘Trade Visa-Free Regime’ for Ukraine

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has asked the European Union to continue measures to abolish all duties and quotas on goods from Ukraine.

The Gaze reports on this with reference to Suspilne.

The appeal was supported by 252 MPs.

The Ukrainian parliament asks the EU to simplify the negotiation process between our country and the EU authorities as much as possible and to immediately start it on amending the annexes to the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement concerning mutual tariff concessions on imports of goods.

The trade liberalisation measures between the European Union and Ukraine will remain in force until 5 June this year.

A week ago, a European official said that the EU would not extend the ‘trade visa-free regime’ with Ukraine after 5 June. After the liberalisation mechanism expires, trade conditions will return to pre-war levels.

On 13 May 2024, the EU approved a trade visa-free regime for Ukraine and extended duty-free and quota-free trade for another year.

In February 2025, at a joint meeting of the European Commission and the Ukrainian government, Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said that Ukraine's first task in 2025 was to complete consultations on trade liberalisation with the EU.

The same month, the agriculture ministers of Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia called for a return to pre-war quotas on agricultural imports from Ukraine.

As The Gaze reported earlier, the European Commission is finalising a proposal on future trade relations with Ukraine, ahead of the expiration of the current autonomous trade measures, also known as the ‘trade visa-free regime’, on 5 June 2025.