Ukraine among top 3 exporters of agricultural products to EU

Ukraine entered the top three countries that exported agricultural products to the EU between May 2018 and April 2019.

The European Commission published the relevant data in the report “Monitoring EU Agri-Food Trade: Development until April 2019.“

“Major gains in annual values (in EUR billion, % change from 2017-18) have been achieved in agri-food exports to the USA (+1.1; +5%), Egypt (+0.4, +30%), Algeria (+0.3; +13%), Japan (+0.3; +5%), Russia (+0.3, +4%), Ukraine (+0.3; +14%), and Israel (+0.2; +13%)… The most important origins for EU agri-food imports over the past 12 months (EUR billion) are the USA (12.9) that overtook Brazil (11.7), followed by Ukraine (6.3) and China (5.9),” the report says.

On a year-on-year basis, the value of agri-food imports (in EUR billion, % change) continued to grow impressively from the USA (+2.4; +23%) and Ukraine (+0.8, +14%).

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