KIEV, July 3 - Vitaliy Khomutynnik, a pro-government (Regions) MP who heads the parliamentary committee for tax and customs has called for the excise duties on all types of alcohol and cigarettes to be increased.

KIEV, July 3 - Interpipe has announced putting in place a local support team to work on the ground based in Basra following approval from South Oil Company (SOC), one of the major fundamental formations of Iraqi national oil company (INOC), as a preferred supplier for the country.

KIEV, July 3 - Ukraine may be able to import up to 20 billion cubic meters of gas from Europe annually via the Slovakian gas pipeline route, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said Wednesday.

KIEV, July 3 – The Energy and Coal Industry Ministry has revised upwards the excise duty on gasoline and diesel fuel, and in particular, the excise rate of gasoline was raised by EUR 32.15 per ton, to EUR 283.87 per ton.

KIEV, July 2 – Fitch Ratings has affirmed the rating of the class B notes of Ukraine Mortgage Loan Finance No.1 plc., the rating agency said.

The rating of the Class B notes was affirmed at 'Bsf' with the outlook revised to stable from positive.

KIEV, July 2 – The Cabinet of Ministers, as of the beginning of the year, is recalculating possible state loans in 2012 with a hryvnia to U.S. dollar exchange rate of UAH 8.10 per $1.

KIEV, June 30 - Kiev has placed $300 million in five-year eurobonds at 9.375%, a source at the city's administration told Interfax-Ukraine.

Investors from Russia, the United States and Britain bought most of the bonds.

KIEV, June 30 – The Ukrainian government has approved 123 projects to reconstruct budget-funded establishments using the funds obtained from the sale of Assigned Amount Units (AAUs, emission quotas) to Japan, the press service of the State Environmental Investment Agency of Ukraine has reported.

KIEV, June 30 – Ukrainian nuclear scientists have first integrated the European Union through joining the European Atomic Forum (FORATOM), President of National Nuclear Generating Company EnergoAtom Yuriy Nedashkovsky said in an interview with Profile magazine.

KIEV, July 1 – Prices of newly harvested grain in Ukraine could fall by at least 30% due to the introduction of exports duties on grain and the cancellation of VAT refunding to grain traders from July 1, 2011, according to experts.