A Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Turkey and Ukraine has been signed eliminating customs on 10,337 goods, constituting 95% of the goods imported into Ukraine from Turkey. Other goods have reduced tariffs. Ukraine will also be able to export to Turkey at a 0% tariff both grain and all industrial products, with reduced tariffs for […]
By James Brooke, UBN 🔵 Ukraine’s exports to the EU have increased by more than one third so far this year 🔵 Italy-Ukraine trade increased by 39% 🔵 In the first five months of the UK-Ukraine free trade deal, bilateral trade has jumped by 41.5% yoy 🔵 President Zelenskiy plans to spend $9 billion during the three remaining years […]
Apartment prices in Kyiv could nearly double – to $2,000 per square meter — by the end of 2023, predicts Serhiy Pylypenko, general director of Kovalska construction and construction materials company. Driving prices up 15-20% this year will be the rising cost of building materials, he told the Confederation of Builders conference, “Post-Quarantine Development” Wednesday in […]
🔵 Ukraine’s GDP warrants and Eurobonds reacted positively to news yesterday that Russia will start to withdraw its troops from Ukraine’s borders. Warrants jumped from 102.5% to 104.4%, and Eurobonds rose by 0.8-2.3 percentage points, depending on maturity dates. 🔵 Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu declared military drills near Ukraine to be over and that units would be withdrawn […]
🔵 Russia’s naval deployments in the Black and Azov Seas threaten to “block important trade routes in international waters,” Ukraine’s Defense Minister Andriy Taran warned the European Parliament’s subcommittee on Security and Defense on Wednesday. The bulk of Ukraine’s $103 billion in foreign trade last year moved by ship. Taran has predicted: “The total number of Russian […]
Ukraine’s position is improving noticeably even if it is being threatened by Russian troop movements and I’m beginning to get more optimistic as it has had a run of luck. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy was just in Qatar where he did a string of deals and big investment projects into ports, rail, construction and trade […]