2023-09-06 17:12:00
Poland warned that it would maintain the ban on the entry of Ukrainian products beyond September 15, the date on which the measure expires.
06 sep 2023 . Updated at 5:12 p.m.
What will be the next chapter in the Ukrainian grain conflict? It is not known. At least for now. While the executive vice president of the European Comission (EC), Valdis Dombrovskis, assured this Wednesday that they are looking for a consensual solution to avoid any commercial conflict between Ukraine and the Member States with which it borders due to the EU veto on the import of Ukrainian grain, Poland advanced that it would maintain the veto to the Farm products Ukrainians beyond September 15.
The European Union (EU) vetoed imports from Ukraine in May until that day after protests launched by Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia, which have been overwhelmed by Ukrainian agri-food products.
In addition, the Commission is considering extending until December the temporary ban on importing four agri-food products from Ukraine into these five Member States. In any event, the government of the latter country threatened to go to the World Trade Organization (WTO) if the import bans on your grain extend beyond the 15th of this month.
Dombrovskis, however, emphasized the need to “listen carefully” to the concerns of these Member States in order “to the extent possible” to find a solution “acceptable” to all. And he remarked that “the EU is there to support Ukraine.”
Brussels is also studying supporting the transit of grain from Kiev, through aid to that country to pay carriers for the additional cost of transfer to Baltic ports and other places from where the grain would leave for third countries.
For his part, Russian President Vladimir Putin advanced at the beginning of the week that he would be willing to reactivate the agreement of the Black Seabut for this the EU would have to lift restrictions on the export of Russian products, especially food or fertilizers.
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