Ukraine exported USD 2.6 billion worth of products to EU

During the first half of 2018, the agro-export to the EU countries amounted to USD 2.6 billion.

This was reported by Olga Trofimtseva, the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine on European Integration, on her Facebook page.

"Thus, the EU remains the second biggest importer of Ukrainian agri-food. At the same time, the total commodity turnover in the agribusiness sector amounted to USD 3.9 billion. That is, the trade balance remains positive for Ukraine," she notes.

The main buyers of Ukrainian agro products (the share of countries in the total volume of exports to the EU):

1. The Netherlands - 16.1%,
2. Italy - 14.4%,
3. Poland - 14.2%,
4. Spain - 13.7%,
5. Germany - 9.3%,
6. France - 6.6%,
7. Great Britain - 3%,
8. Hungary - 2.9%,
9. Belgium - 2.8%,
10. Portugal - 2.6%.

The following products form the largest share in the structure of Ukrainian exports to the EU:

• cereals (corn, wheat, barley, sorghum, etc.) – USD 975.2 million;
• oil (sunflower, soybean, rapeseed, etc.) – USD 559.4 million;
• residues and waste products of the food industry (cake and other solid waste obtained from the extraction of sunflower oil, soybean oil, waste from the production of starch, sugar, etc.) – USD 256.5 million;
• seeds of oilseeds (soybeans, rapeseed, other oilseeds, sunflower, and flax) – USD 224.7 million;
• meat and edible by-products of poultry – USD 127.1 million.

Reference: Ukrainian agrarian exports amounted to USD 8.6 billion in January-June 2018.