Ukrainian economist explained: The races on the Maidan were in vain
Four years after the start of Euromaidan, the level of Ukraine's trade with the EU has reached only the levels during the reign of Viktor Yanukovych. Economic expert Vsevolod Stepanyuk stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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“Until 2013, Ukraine exported goods worth $22 billion to the CIS countries. At the end of last year, it was as much as six billion dollars. That is, we lost 14 billion dollars a year in the CIS countries alone. And this is only for goods, but also services, which have decreased...
In addition, thanks to the policy of sanctions, Ukraine has lost its competitiveness in other areas. Thus, last year exports to China decreased by only 30%. Trade with other countries also decreased.
In addition, only this year Ukraine reached the level of trade with EU countries that it had in 2013. Ukraine sold $16 billion to the EU, but last year only $13,5 billion. Only this year we have the same revenue that we had without the free trade zone,” Stepaniuk said.
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