UAC News

July 5th, 2016 Interfax-Ukraine held the press conference “NO to new taxes! YES to separate collection of packaging waste!” The representatives of industry and business associations expressed their unified position against the tax on production and import of packaging and packaged goods. The event was attended by the President of UAC Leonid Kozachenko, the President of American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine Andrij Gunder, the Deputy CEO of European Business Association Svitlana Mykhailovska, the Chairman of Ukrainian Milk Traders Association Vadym Chaharovsky and the RPR expert Mykhailo Sokolov.

In September-December of 2013/14 MY Ukraine exported 7.5 thsd tonnes of sunflower seed, a decrease of 9 times compared with the same period last season, declared Sergey Stoyanov, General Director of the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation. According to him, increasing of the competition for raw materials between oilseed processors caused reduction of the export volumes.

In November 2013 Ukraine exported the record volumes of grains and oilseeds - 4.6 mln tonnes, declared Sergei Stoyanov, General Director of Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation, on December 2. In particular, he noted that grain exports totaled 4.2 mln tonnes, which also became the record, including 3.4 mln tonnes of maize, 650 thsd tonnes of wheat, nearly 100 thsd tonnes of barley.

After Ukraine becomes the associate member of the European Union, the country will be able to bring the EU to the position of the world leader on grain exports, declared Leonid Kozachenko, President of UAC. According to him, the association of Ukraine with the EU will lead to some redistribution of roles on the world grain market, and changing of the world ratings of international grain suppliers.