According to the results of January-August 2018, the commodity turnover of goods of the agrarian and food industries between Ukraine and the countries of the European Union reached $ 5.4 billion, which is $ 330 million more than in the same period last year. At the same time, exports of Ukrainian agricultural products to the EU markets exceeded $ 3.6 billion, Olha Trofimtseva, Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine for European Integration said, the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy reported.

Infographics on key export markets for agricultural products for 2016-2018 was published on AgroRolit.com. Follow the link.

As of September 21, Ukrainian exporters used the volume of tariff quotas for 100% for duty-free exports to the EU markets for a number of Ukrainian goods. This was stated by the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine on issues of European integration Olha Trofimtseva, the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy reported.

According to the results of January-July of 2018, the foreign trade turnover of agrarian goods between Ukraine and the EU countries increased by 4 4% and amounted to almost $ 4.6 billion. At the same time, Ukrainian exports amount to almost $ 3.1 billion, that is, Ukraine has a positive trade balance. This was told by the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine on European Integration Olha Trofimtseva, the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy reported.

In the first half of 2018 the largest volumes of exports to the EU countries were produced by the agro-industrial complex and food industry - 25.8% of the total volume of exports ($ 2 billion 526 million). This is reported by the site of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.

Belarus is interested in bringing forward the certification of poultry farms to start exporting poultry meat and products from it to the European Union.

According to the press service of the Belarusian government, this was stated by Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Mikhail Rusy during a meeting with the European Commissioner for Food Safety and Security Vytenis Andriukaitis, agronews.ua reported.

During the first half of 2018 Ukraine increased poultry meat exports to the European Union by 80%. This is reported by analysts of Pro-Consulting.

Ukraine fully used 10 duty-free export quotas in the EU for January-June 2018. This is reported by the deputy director of the NSC "Institute of Agrarian Economics", corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences Mykola Puhachov, agronews.ua reported.

About 300 Ukrainian enterprises have the right to export to the European Union, of which 109 are food producers. The number of Ukrainian enterprises that received the right to export food products of animal origin, increased from 690 in October 2017 to 836 - as of early July 2018.

This was reported on Friday, August 3, by the press service of the State Service of Ukraine of Food Safety and Consumer Protection, with reference to the director of the department Boris Kobal.

The European Union compensates for the deficit of Brazilian chicken in the market at the expense of Ukraine and Thailand, UNN reported with reference to Euro Meat News.