Ukraine used up most of 2024 EU agrifood export quotas by April - Copa-Cogeca

MOSCOW. June 5 (Interfax) - Ukraine used up most of the quotas set for its agrifood exports to the European Union under the Autonomous Trade Measures (ATM) for 2024 by April, Jacek Zarzecki of Copa-Cogeca, the EU's leading agrarian association, said.

"Ukraine used up most of the 2024 ATM quotas by April: 150% of the quota for oats, 66% eggs, 41% poultry, 70% sugar, 47% maize, 62% groats, and 51% honey," Ukrainian media quoted Zarzecki as saying on his social account.

Zarzecki suggested that the EU should bar imports of sensitive agricultural products from Ukraine in July.

As reported earlier, the Council of the EU on May 13 endorsed the extension of ATMs for Ukraine, which chiefly concerns agrifood imports, for another 12 months starting June 2024.

The agreements stipulate that, while the ATMs remain in effect, Ukraine is entitled to export to the EU poultry, eggs, sugar, oats, groats, maize, and honey within the average of import volumes recorded in the second half of 2021 and over the whole of 2022 and 2023 .

In line with Article 4(7) of the Regulation on Autonomous Trade Measures on imports of Ukrainian agricultural products from June 6, 2024 to June 5, 2025, Ukraine is entitled to export duty-free 57,101 tonnes of poultry, 9,662 tonnes of eggs, 109,439 tonnes of sugar, 18,507 tonnes of honey, 4.648 million tonnes of maize, 1,017 tonnes of oats, and 8,603 tonnes of groats.

Copa-Cogeca is an association of COPA and COGECA, the two major agricultural umbrella organizations representing the interests of European farmers in the EU.