The European Union will gradually lift its ban on imports of certain agricultural products from Ukraine to Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Slovakia by Sept. 15, the press service of the European Commission has said.
The restrictions will be reduced from 17 to 6 tariff lines for four products — wheat, maize, rapeseed, and sunflower seeds.
In addition, the suspension of import duties, quotas, and trade defense measures — known as the Autonomous Trade Measures (ATMs) — on Ukrainian exports to the EU will be extended for another year, the EC reports.
The European Commission said that the phased abolition of restrictions would improve “Solidarity Lanes” and solve problems with the export of Ukrainian grain from the country after the new harvest.
On May 2, the European Commission banned imports of four Ukrainian products to five EU countries: Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia.
The decision was made due to “serious logistical bottlenecks.”