Here are details on how the temporary ban in five CEE states – Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia – has affected sales of Ukrainian grain and its transit to other destinations.
Hot item: Farmers take a break from sowing their oat field in Ukraine. The country’s grain is exempt from EU customs duties, which has made it cheaper than local production. — AFP
A current deal to protect farmers in the five states near to Ukraine – Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia or CEE states – is due to expire on Sept 15. Ukraine’s proximity and high logistics costs drove an unprecedented surge in its grain exports into the five states in 2022 and early 2023, creating sales disruptions, squeezing out regional crops from domestic and some export markets, depressing prices and prompting farmers’ protests.
Cezar Gheorghe of Romanian grain market consultancy AGRIColumn, who placed Ukrainian grain sales at around 4.7 million tonnes, said imports continued even after the ban was enforced under the guise of existing contracts. In May, the EU allowed five states – Poland, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia all border Ukraine, while Bulgaria lies south of the Danube – to ban domestic sales of Ukrainian wheat, maize and oilseeds till June 5, later extended to Sept 15 while still allowing transit through them for onward export.
Poland, with an election due soon, has already said it will not open its border on Sept 15, increasing pressure on Brussels to extend the protective measures.
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