Europe does not need Ukrainian goods

How Russian Today reports, the export of Ukrainian goods to the countries of the EU increased only by 2,1%. However, the EU announced preferences for Ukraine. The National Bank of Ukraine announced this in the report concerning the state of balance of payments of the country for 2014 year.

How it was known the EU opened its market for Ukrainian goods in a one-way fashion in margins of “preferential” trade regime with Ukraine in April 2014 year.

This measure foresaw the cancellation of 98% of customs duties. In regard to the calculations of Kiev authorities, this step had to save for the producers 487 million euros per year.

According to the evaluations of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine, kit was expected that the cancellation of customs duties would allow to increase annual volumes of export of Ukrainian goods from the EU by the third.

However, in regard to the dates of statistic service of Ukraine, 14 countries of the EU among 28 countries decreased buying of Ukrainian goods, writes the newspaper Izvestia.