Ukraine opens 23 new export markets in six months, surpassing full-year 2025 result
Ukraine opened 23 new markets and secured new export conditions for domestic products during the first six months of 2026. This already exceeds the result for the whole of 2025, when Ukrainian producers gained access to 22 new markets, according to the State Service of Ukraine on Food Safety and Consumer Protection.
Among the newly opened export destinations is China, which approved imports of Ukrainian flour, and Chile, which opened its market to Ukrainian milk and dairy products.
Ukraine also gained access to the Algerian market for exports of beef cattle for slaughter, breeding and fattening purposes; to Vietnam for egg products; to Kuwait for meat and meat products; and to Côte d’Ivoire for beef, lamb, poultry meat and related products.
Egypt authorised imports of sheep for immediate slaughter, egg products, fish products and pet food. Georgia opened its market to Ukrainian beef and offal, plant-based feed, rendered fats for non-food use, and animal by-products.
New export opportunities have also been created for processed pet food to Albania and the Republic of Korea, live rodents to Denmark, and live snails and snail caviar to Moldova.
Separately, the European Union approved imports from Ukraine of planting material of sour cherry (Prunus cerasus), dwarf cherry (Prunus fruticosa), and their hybrids.
