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4.2mn tonnes less y/y , the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food reports. Wheat exports amounted to 16.18mn tonnes (485,000 tonnes), maize - 15.98mn tonnes (2.59mn tonnes less), barley - 4.19mn tonnes (1,070 tonnes less), rye - 35,000 tonnes (29,600 tonnes more), and flour - 392,800 tonnes (54,800 tonnes more).
Ukrainian-Bulgarian economic cooperation increases 37%. President Poroshenko announced at a meeting with the Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Boyko Borissov, that in the first quarter of 2018 , bilateral trade had increased by 37%. "This is direct proof of an effective application of the deep and comprehensive free trade area between Ukraine and the European Union," he said. It was agreed that later in the year a meeting of the Joint Ukrainian-Bulgarian Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation, will be held, after a delay of eight years. It is also planned to increase cooperation in the communications and educational spheres.
Trade turnover between Ukraine and Slovenia grows by 31% in 2017.
According to President Poroshenko, the growth became possible due to a deep and comprehensive free trade zone. Slovenian business actively invests in Ukraine, participates in tenders and wins them, in particular those announced by municipalities, he elaborated.
Ukrainian-Netherlands trade soars to $1.5bn. The trade turnover between Ukraine and the Netherlands increased by 69% in 2017, and by a further 21% in the first quarter of 2018 , mainly due to an increase in exports, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food has announced. The bilateral trade turnover in 2017 amounted to almost $1.5bn, of which Ukrainian exports amounted to $1.28bn. Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Maksym Martyniuk says the Ukraine is ready to increase supplies of flour and cereals, meat, natural and mineral water, molasses, food industry residues and waste products, and that a promising area for cooperation is the development of organic production. The Netherlands is interested in Ukraine's land reform, support of farmers, and the investment attractiveness of the Ukrainian agribusiness sector, the country’s Ambassador said at his meeting with Deputy Minister Martyniuk.
Metallurgy accounted for almost a quarter of exports in the first quarter . Metallurgy accounted for 22.57% of Ukraine's total exports during the first quarter, earning $3.488bn from ferrous metal exports. This was an increase of 32.2% y/y, according to Ukraine's State Fiscal Service. Metal ware export grew by 34%, to $351.4mn, accounting for 2.27% of the country's total exports. But imports of ferrous metals increased by 32.3% to $385.3mn, while shipments of metal ware from abroad grew by 18.2%, to $267.8mn. In 2017 revenue from exports of ferrous metals rose by 19.6% to $8.7bn, and earnings from metal ware exports by 30% up to $896.7mn, UNIAN reports.
Ukraine sees export of poultry rise by 2.6%, pork fall by 66.7% in four months of 2018 Ukraine in January-April 2018 exported 98,360 tonnes of poultry, which is 2.6% more than in the same period in 2017, the State Fiscal Service has reported. According to its data, in monetary terms exports of these products increased by 21%, to $150.09mn. Imports of poultry for the four months of 2018 increased by 27.7%, to 40,000 tonnes, in monetary terms by 35.8%, to $16.73mn. According to the service, exports of pork in January-April 2018 decreased by 66.7% compared to the corresponding period in 2017, to 810 tonnes. Exports amounted to $1.88mn against $4.7mn in the four months of 2017. Pork imports to Ukraine during this period increased by 4.6 times, to
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