"To date we have four quotas on which the acceptable amounts have been exhausted early. These include the quota on the export of maize (400,000 tons), honey (5,000 tons), very nearly the quota on the export of apple and grape juices (98.4 percent of 10,000 tons) and the quarterly quota for poultry (4,000 tons)," Rutitskaya noted, cited by Ukrainian Information Agency UNIAN.
Rutitskaya noted that her ministry will push to expand Ukraine's quota allowances for these and other goods at the next regular session of the "Ukraine-EU Dialogue" in late April. "Within the framework of our dialogue on agriculture, we will discuss the trade preferences granted by the EU to Ukraine, and the possibility of starting negotiations on a revision process within the framework of a free trade regime with the EU."
The Deputy Minister added that "while we have exhausted some quotas on trade with the EU ahead of schedule, in others, the quotas have not been filled. For example, in 2014, quotas on mushrooms, dairy products, pork, beef, and cigarettes were not used."