KYIV, Oct 29 – The increase in the price of natural gas for households will help reform Ukraine's energy sector, U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker has said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
KIEV, Oct. 27 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is mulling the provision of a $37 million loan to MV Cargo LLC to finance the construction of a grain terminal at Yuzhny port (Odessa region).
KIEV, Oct. 28 - The High Court of Justice of England and Wales has ratified a deal on restructuring $200 million eurobonds of Avangard agricultural holding maturing on October 29, 2015, the company told Interfax-Ukraine.
KIEV, Oct. 28 – Members of Parliament have proposed the reduction of value-added tax (VAT) from 20% to 15% and the introduction of the automatic tax refund for all amounts confirmed by the electronic VAT administration system.
The provision is contained in the draft tax reform registered in the parliament by 114 deputies on October 26.
KIEV, Oct. 26 – Ukraine's total state direct and guaranteed debt expanded by 0.8%, or $635.3 million, in September, to $61.54 billion, the Finance Ministry reported on Friday.
KIEV, Oct. 29 – The Economic Development and Trade Ministry has proposed doubling the fully paid import duties for almost 7,400 subcategories of goods, which is 68% of the entire range of goods.
KIEV, Oct. 29 – Ukrhydroenergo has started adding water to the upper reservoir of the Dnistrovska hydroelectric pumped storage power plant, and Ukrenergo has connected the 330 kV Dnistrovska hydroelectric pumped storage power plant-Bar substation power line.
KIEV, Oct. 29 – The rubber objects in oil that caused the temporarily failure of oil meters on the Slovak and Hungarian sections of the Druzhba pipeline could not have originated in Ukraine, Ukrtransnafta, the operator of Ukraine's oil transport system, said.
The company said that after examinations by an international commission, the rubber objects were classified as technological.
