Ukrainian size

The Ukrainian size last year has shown a record for the last decade of the growth rate of exports of Ukrainian goods to Russia. In 2004, the Russians consumed Made in Ukraine goods worth more than $ 15 billion, which is one and a half times more than in 2003.

Gorilka fight with vodka

National Alcohol Association (NAA), asked Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov to change the rules of import and sale in Russia of alcohol from Ukraine. According to her, in 2004 90% of strong alcohol in Russia was imported from Ukraine. The main share of the sales of Ukrainian Gornil is on Nemiroff, Soyuz-Victan, and “soft”. “Products from the CIS countries, in particular from Ukraine, are imported without customs duties, does not go through the excise storage regime and falls into retail right away,” says Dmitry Pavlov, director of the Moscow Representative Office of Ladoga.

Ukrainian manufacturers are perplexed by such accusations. “Russian manufacturers have created the image of a mythical enemy in the person of Ukrainian Gorilok,” says Yakov Gribov, President of Nemiroff, the newspaper Yakov Gribov. - The main problem of Russian manufacturers is not in Ukrainian imports, but in illegal production, which in a number of Russian regions occupies up to 60%. " Today, the proportion of Ukrainian Gorilok in the Russian market is insignificant - about 4%, but, according to experts, by the end of this year, Ukrainian alcohol will be able to occupy 15% of the market.

Sweet dependence

Very soon, sugar producers will have to pay for friendship with Ukraine. Since 2007, Russia will have to cancel all restrictions on the import of Ukrainian sugar. When consuming 5.8 million tons, our country produces about 2 million. At the same time, Ukraine itself is torn to the Russian Sugar market produces about 1.5 million tons when consuming 2 million, closing the deficit due to the processing of imported cheesecakes. “After the abolition of import duties, Ukraine will simply change the import scheme. All sugar consumed inside the country will be imported into Russia, and they themselves will begin to process cheaper imported sugar cheese, ”said Evgeny Ivanov, an analyst at the Institute of Conjuncture of the Agrarian Market.

Salted imports

Representatives of the salt industry also turned to the government. The main trump card of Ukrainian manufacturers is low prices. So, if in 2002, according to customs officers, 732 thousand tons of salt were imported into Russia, then in 2003 this figure increased to 800 thousand tons. At the same time, its price dropped from 23 to 21 dollars per ton. Russian manufacturers release it of 13-15 dollars per ton, but the transport component increases the final price by many times. In addition to the low price, suppliers from the CIS offer Russian consumers more interesting payment conditions. “Directors of Russian enterprises are mainly working on prepayment, and we can receive Ukrainian salt first, and then pay for it,” say in Sevu Paragionsol.

The pipes are burning

The trumpets, at first glance, are better. A peculiar indicator is considered to be a change in the leadership of the state -owned company Naftogaz. The head of the subcommittee of the legislative support of law enforcement in the Verkhovna Rada Alexei Ivchenko was appointed to the place of Yuri Boyko. When determining the suppliers, the previous leadership of Naftogaz was of Ukrainian companies, in particular the Khartsyz Pipe Plant. The new leadership announced the principle of openness in the choice of suppliers. Thus, Russian pipes manufacturers may have the opportunity to supply their products to Ukraine, the market of which was actually closed to them.

At the same time, the supply of Ukrainian pipes to Russia is not regulated in any way. This allows Ukrainian trumpets to supply products to our country at dumping prices, which is especially noticeable in the segment of large diameter pipes.

In January-February alone, the decline in production in the Russian pipeline industry, compared with the same period of 2004, amounted to 9.6%, while Ukrainian pipe plants in January-February significantly increased deliveries to the Russian domestic market: the Khartsyz Pipe Plant-by 17%. The Pipe Industry Fund in March proposed to Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov to enter temporary import duties on the import of large diameter pipes. According to the director of the Pipe Industry Development Fund, Alexander Deineko, the damage of Russian trumpets from a sharp decrease in deliveries to the domestic market in 2005 may amount to about $ 200 million.

Caramel war

The alignment of forces in the caramel market is also not in favor of Russian manufacturers. According to the analysts of the United Confectioners holding, in 2004 in Russia caramels were sold for $ 700 million, or 90% caramel imports.

“Despite the introduction of barrier duties in 2001, Ukrainian companies found a way to go around Russian legislation and began to add cocoa to caramel, and thus it stopped falling under the articles of the new law,” says Viktor Sharsapin, president of the Association of Economic Enterprise enterprises. on caramel up to 30%. " This allowed more than a third to increase exports in 2004.

03/18/2005 / Maria Solovichenko