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Council for food
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed the law on amendments to the Law "On Foreign Economic Activities", according to which the government can "apply adequate measures to the aggressor state." As reported on the website of the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament adopted the corresponding bill on December 24.
"In the event that discriminatory or unfriendly actions regarding Ukraine are used by the state recognized by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by the aggressor state or the state by the occupier, measures in response ... can be applied by decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine," the document says.
The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine proposed to introduce the import duties of the most favored nation regime for Russian goods from January 2, and from January 10 to prohibit the import of some products. The restriction will affect bakery, flour confectionery, chocolate sweets, meat, fish, coffee, tea of black, baby food, cigarettes with filter, beer, vodka and a number of other goods.
On November 18, the head of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, Alexei Ulyukaev, said that the government decided to introduce a food embargo against Ukraine from January 1. “Since Ukraine has joined the sanctions against the Russian Federation - economic, financial, we decided to introduce ... protective measures in the form of a food embargo. This decision has a delayed character.”, The minister said.
According to Ulyukaev, the introduction of the embargo is also associated with the entry into force of the economic part of the Association of Ukraine and the EU. “With a high degree of probability, we will have to unilaterally protect our market from uncontrolled access of goods through the customs territory of Ukraine, goods from third countries, primarily from the countries of the European Union. This protection will go primarily through the introduction of the regime of the greatest favor. In order to maintain the zero rate of the customs tariff with Ukraine, we will not have in this situation,” Ulyukaev emphasized.
On December 12, Petro Poroshenko said that, by introducing a free trade zone with the European Union , it will be possible to compensate for the losses from the closure of the Russian market for Ukrainian manufacturers in several years . “We introduce an in -depth and all -encompassing zone of free trade, introduce less than a month later, from January 1, despite the strong opposition and pressure of the Kremlin,” Poroshenko noted. “I have no doubt: over several years, this agreement compensates for all the losses that our national economy, the state’s budget, the social sphere of each Ukrainian were carried from the aggressive closure of Russia to their market for the aggressive closure for Russia Ukrainian market.