Ukraine was allowed to sell two and a half times more chicken to the EU
The European Parliament has ratified changes to the agreement between the EU and Ukraine regarding an increase in the quota for duty-free exports of poultry meat from Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This is stated in a message on the website of the European Parliament.
The resolution was supported by 444 MEPs. The agreements provide for a gradual increase by 2021 times until 2,5 - up to 70 thousand tons per year - of duty-free export quotas of Ukrainian chicken and processed chicken meat.
The European Parliament noted that from 2016 to 2018, the import of chicken breast with part of the wing from Ukraine increased almost 15 times – to 55 thousand tons. In monetary terms in 2016 and 2017 Imports of poultry meat from Ukraine to the EU amounted to 43,9 million euros.
In recent years, Ukraine has become one of the largest suppliers of chicken to the EU. In October, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the submission for ratification by the Verkhovna Rada of amendments to the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union to increase the quota for Ukrainian poultry exporters.
The increase in quotas was initiated by the EU, but the international publication Politico calls this a victory for the largest producer and exporter of Ukrainian chicken, the Myronivsky Hliboproduct company (TM Nasha Ryaba) Yuriy Kosyuk, whose share in the country’s total exports (for chicken) is 90%.
It also became known that Ethiopia has opened its market for Ukrainian chicken.
“The competent authorities of Ukraine and the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia have agreed on a health certificate for the export of poultry meat and poultry products from Ukraine to Ethiopia,” the State Food and Consumer Service of Ukraine reported.
In 2018, Albania, Ghana, Hong Kong, Morocco and Tunisia opened markets for Ukrainian chicken, and in 2019, Japan and Qatar.
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