KIEV, Sept. 3 – Prices of Russian cars on the Ukrainian market could grow by an average $1,000 if Ukraine introduces an import fee on them, according to Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.

MOSCOW, Sept. 1 - Russia and Ukraine expect to draw up an intergovernmental agreement on completing the construction of power units 3 and 4 of the Khmelnytsky Nuclear Power Plant by the end of September, the Russian nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly Atomstroyexport, which is bidding for the general contract, said in a statement.

KIEV, Sept. 3 – The American Chamber of Commerce has said that imports of goods to Ukraine have been made more difficult due to the introduction of a new duty on services in waste packaging recycling by the Ukrainian government.

KIEV, Sept. 1 - Ukraine's steel industry reduced finished roll output 30% year-on-year in January-August to 17.072 million tons, the Industrial Policy Ministry announced.

KIEV, Sept. 2 - Ukrainian national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny expects tariffs for transit of Russian gas to rise 57%-60% in 2010 from the current $1.7 per 1,000 cubic meters per 100 kilometers.

KIEV, Sept. 1 – The Ukrainian insurance sector has serious problems with paying taxes, director of the department for control of financial institutions and transactions in the foreign economic activities sphere of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine (STAU), Tetyana Sysoseva, has told the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia weekly newspaper.

KIEV, Sept. 1 - Ukraine's steel industry raised finished roll output 2% year-on-year in the first eight months of 2008 to 24.471 million tons, the Industrial Policy Ministry told Interfax.

KIEV, Sept. 1 - VS Energy (The Netherlands), which has assets in various sectors of the Ukrainian economy, in particular, in the energy and real estate sector, plans to invest $800 million in real estate projects totaling around 700,000 square meters, according to VS Energy Vice President for Real Estate and Construction Oleksandr Lesnikov.

KIEV, Sept. 3 – Most Ukrainian metals companies are now lagging behind their Russian peers in the price-quality conditions of their products, as well as in their level of servicing consumers and the flexibility of their trade policies, the president of the Ukrainian Association of Metal Traders, Andriy Fedoseev, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 3 – The Cabinet of Ministers has failed to implement in time a decision taken by the National Security and Defense Council to ensure the direct use of the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline, according to Bohdan Sokolovsky, the president's commissioner for international energy security.