As reports the Ukrainian Club of Agribusiness (UCAB), as of 1 November Ukraine has exhausted the permitted volume of natural honey imports under the EU tariff quota and has almost used up the quota for sugar.
Quotas fully exhausted as of 1 November
As of 1 November the annual quotas for apple juice, undenatured ethyl alcohol, natural honey and sweet corn have been fully exhausted. These items were allocated on a “first-come, first-served” basis, the report said.
“The trend was particularly notable for natural honey: over the month quota utilisation rose from 87.1% to 100%. The sugar quota is also almost exhausted - 96.1% of the annual volume has already been used compared with 90.3% at the start of October,” analysts noted.
Allocation of quotas for meat and poultry
Over the past month an additional 4.47 thousand metric tonnes of frozen poultry meat were allocated, bringing the total to 9.45 thousand metric tonnes, or 35.4% of the annual quota compared with 18.7% the previous month. At the same time, the annual quotas for fresh poultry meat, eggs and egg products have already been almost entirely allocated through import licences.
The wheat quota also remains fully exhausted, experts add. For some items the annual quotas have been allocated only partially, so some volumes of goods are still available.
Processed products, milk, barley and flour
High quota utilisation continues for prepared or canned tomatoes - 86.8% (+8.3 percentage points compared with October), and for starch and inulin - 72.3% (+7.0 percentage points). In the dairy sector, under the quota for milk and condensed milk the total allocated volume increased from 32.4% to 40.2% of the annual quota, and for skimmed milk and dry cream - from 70.2% to 72.5%.
There were no significant changes for butter and other milk fats - about 16% of the annual quota has been allocated. In the November round an additional 5,000 metric tonnes of barley were allocated, raising the allocation coefficient to 28.4%, while for grain flour the allocation coefficient increased to 38.1%.
Experts estimate that as of 1 November the greatest pressure on available tariff quotas is being observed for processed products, honey, sugar, poultry and eggs.
