KIEV, July 9 - UkrAvto Ukrainian Car Corporation has received a permit from China's Chery Automobile Co. to distribute Chery cars in Georgia, Belarus and Moldova, UkrAvto Vice President Oleh Papashev told the press in Tbilisi, Georgia.

KIEV, July 9 - Austria's Voest-Alpine, which is studying the possibility of building a metals plant in either Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria or Turkey, will make a decision on the site for the plant's construction before the end of 2008, Ukrainian Deputy Industrial Policy Minister Volodymyr Severniuk said on Wednesday.

KIEV, July 10 – UkrAvto Corporation, one of the largest players on the Ukrainian car market, plans to transfer from SKD assembling of cars, which has become unprofitable following Ukraine's joining the World Trade Organization, to importing ready-made cars.

KIEV, July 10 – Ukraine's Transport and Communications Ministry has increased duties on services provided in Ukrainian seaports for foreign vessels.

The size of the pilot fee was increased by an average of 58%.

KIEV, July 10 - Alfa Bank (Kiev) plans to hold a roadshow for a loan participation note issue of up to $1 billion in the UK and Switzerland, a bank spokesman told Interfax.

KIEV, July 10 – Ukraine’s national oil and gas company, Naftogaz Ukrayiny, said Tuesday it had won a shareholder dispute with Russian oil company Tatneft and now controls a majority stake in the country’s largest oil refinery, UkrTatNafta.

MOSCOW, July 9 - Fitch Ratings has assigned IUD Finance Plc's proposed issue of $350 million to $500 million of loan participation notes expected senior unsecured 'B+' and Recovery 'RR4' ratings. The notes will benefit from surety from three group entities, including the parent company Corporation Industrial Union of Donbass ("IUD"). The expected rating is in line with IUD's Long-term Issuer Default 'B+' rating with Stable Outlook, which along with IUD's Short-term Issuer Default 'B' rating is affirmed today. The final rating on the notes is contingent on the receipt of final documentation conforming to information already received and further details regarding the amount and tenor.

KIEV, July 10 - Britain's Cardinal Resources Plc, which extracts hydrocarbons in Ukraine, said that political instability in the country is forcing it to issue additional stock to replenish its circulating capital, the company announced on Monday.

KIEV, July 10 - Moscow-based Alliance Oil Company and Lutsk-based West Îil Group (WOG) have signed an agreement on strategic cooperation in realizing a project to develop Kherson oil refinery, Alliance Oil Company told Interfax-Ukraine on Monday.

KIEV, July 10 - Donetsk-based First Ukrainian International Bank (FUIB) at the end of last week completed the placement of UAH300 million of 12% three-year bonds, the bank's securities department told Interfax-Ukraine.