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has announced. "Over 50% of the state order is fulfilled by private companies,” he added. Turchynov linked this step to plans to liberalize foreign economic activity, Ukrinform reports.
Sweden’s SKF Ukraine ball bearing plant in Lutsk is doing so well that the Gothenburg headquarters decided last month to invest in new production lines, the Kyiv Post reports. With 96% of production exported, largely to German car plants, the company currently employs 1,400 workers, says Vladimir Tsybulsky, managing director to SKF Ukraine.
Pipe production continues to increase . Pipe production by Ukrainian enterprises has continued to grow, and increased by 10% in January-May y/y by 10% to 448,000 tonnes, including with 91,000 tonnes being manufactured in May. In 2017 pipe production from ferrous metals grew by 23.5% from 2016, to 1,047,800 tonnes, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
The US Commerce Department has abolished the anti-dumping customs tariffs for Ukrainian ammonium nitrate , the press service of the Ministry for Agrarian Policy and Food reports. The reconsideration of the anti-dumping customs tariffs began in May, on the initiative of the US Commerce Department. Ukrainian fertilizers will have the possibility to enter the American market. Earlier the tariff for the Ukrainian fertilizers was 156, 29%. They were established in September 2001. As reported earlier the Generalized System of Preferences, which allows for duty-free importation of more than 3,500 types of goods from Ukraine to the United States, has suspended 155 types of Ukrainian goods, 112UA reports.
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