EconomyPolitics The Ukrainian Parliament calls on the EU to increase commerce advantages for exports. Thursday, April 17, 2025

The Verkhovna Rada adopted an enchantment to the European Parliament, the EC, and the Council of the EU, together with the parliaments and governments of EU member states, urging them to increase commerce advantages for Ukrainian exports till the phrases of the free commerce settlement between Ukraine and the EU are reviewed. Particularly, the Council urges the EU to keep up a mechanism much like the autonomous commerce measures till the up to date annexes to the Affiliation Settlement between Ukraine and the EU come into impact. Moreover, the parliament emphasised the necessity for an pressing begin and the best attainable simplification of the negotiation course of to amend the related annexes to the Affiliation Settlement when it comes to mutual tariff concessions for items imports, bearing in mind mutual commerce indicators from latest years. In the meantime, the FT stories that as a substitute of free entry to the EU market, the European Fee goals to barter broader commerce liberalization with Kyiv by June 5 underneath the Affiliation Settlement.