Economic effect from raising EU quotas for Ukrainian farmers could reach $200 mln - Deputy PM

Economic effect from raising EU quotas for Ukrainian farmers could reach $200 mln - Deputy PM

"We received proposals yesterday, and preliminary assessments by our Ministry of Agrarian Policy stand at about 200 million dollars. It is farm produce alone," she said after a joint briefing with European Commissioner in charge of EU trade policy Cecilia Malmstrom in Kyiv on Friday. However, Klympush-Tsintsadze added that the European Commission did not agree to increase quotas on a number of other products Ukraine proposed, noting they may be increased in the future.