KIEV, March 3 - The board of the National Bank of Ukraine has decided to retain its refinancing rate at 22%.

KIEV, March 4 – DTEK is Ukraine's largest leaser of state-run property, with its leasing of the property of Dobropilliavuhillia bringing UAH 13.9 million a month to the budget and property of Bilozerska Mine – UAH 3.7 million, the State Property Fund said in a list on leasing agreements signed as of March 1.

KIEV, March 4 – Companies that are members of the of Indian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association in Ukraine (IPMA) have presented the conditions of production of medicines at their plants in India to Ukrainian MPs – representatives of the Ukraine-India parliamentary committees for healthcare, preventing and combating corruption and the budget committee.

KIEV, March 4 – Dnipropetrovsk's Interpipe Pipe and Wheel Company has renewed its complaints about an acute shortage of scrap ferrous metal in Ukraine, noting 53,000 tons of supply last month amounted to only 23% of projected demand (234,000 tons).

KIEV, March 4 – The National Bank of Ukraine has proposed that mergers of small and medium-sized banks with market shares of no more than 0.5% to 1% market shares be allowed to proceed without the permission of the Antimonopoly Committee.

KIEV, March 4 – Ukraine plans to reorganize troubled Rodovid Bank into a bank for non-performing assets, reads a draft memorandum by the Ukrainian authorities to the International Monetary Fund, which was drawn up for the second review of the Stand-By Arrangement.

KIEV, March 4 – The Ukrainian government plans to stop the duty-free importing of petroleum products to Ukraine to improve the country's investment attractiveness and prevent losses to the national budget, according to a draft memorandum by the Ukrainian authorities to the International Monetary Fund, which was drawn up for the second review of the Stand-By Arrangement.

KIEV, March 3 – U.S.-based agri-industrial corporation Bunge has acquired port-based facilities in Ukraine for an overall sum of about $100 million.

As Bunge said in its annual report, the buyer was one of its European-based subsidiaries, and the deal was struck on February 10.

Interfax-Ukraine was unable to obtain further information from Bunge on the deal.

KIEV, March 3 – VAT reimbursement to ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih has been settled, according to the Ukrainian government.

"Ukrainian Premier Mykola Azarov said that the VAT reimbursement to ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih has been settled," the prime minister’s told Interfax-Ukraine, commenting on talks between Azarov and Laurent Moser head of the Parliament of Luxembourg.

KIEV, March 3 – Ukraine's balance of payments in January 2011 improved thanks to the influence of temporary factors but growth in the deficit of the current account is still expected in future, according to Serhiy Arbuzov, Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.