Ukraine among top 3 exporters of agricultural products to EU

The European Commission published the relevant data in the report “Monitoring EU Agri-Food Trade: Development until April 2019.“

“Major gains in annual values (in EUR billion, % change from 2017-18) have been achieved in agri-food exports to the USA (+1.1; +5%), Egypt (+0.4, +30%), Algeria (+0.3; +13%), Japan (+0.3; +5%), Russia (+0.3, +4%), Ukraine (+0.3; +14%), and Israel (+0.2; +13%)… The most important origins for EU agri-food imports over the past 12 months (EUR billion) are the USA (12.9) that overtook Brazil (11.7), followed by Ukraine (6.3) and China (5.9),” the report says.

On a year-on-year basis, the value of agri-food imports (in EUR billion, % change) continued to grow impressively from the USA (+2.4; +23%) and Ukraine (+0.8, +14%).

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