KIEV: Ukrainian food export to the EU member countries increased by 16% in January after the free trade regime came into force, according to the country’s President Petro Poroshenko.
“We have started to truly integrate into the European market. There are first positive statistic data concerning the free trade zone effect,” Poroshenko says. “For instance, food exports to the European Union in January 2016 increased by 16% in comparison with January 2015. The import of technologies from Europe increased by 22%.”
Poroshenko also says that country gradually compensates losses from ‘trade wars’ with Russia. The free trade zone between Ukraine and the EU was implemented on January 1, 2016. During 2015 Ukraine conducted 15 rounds of negotiations in Ukraine-EU-Russia format.
