KYIV, Aug 18 – The Ukrmetalurgprom Association of Enterprises has appealed to President Volodymyr Zelensky with a request to raise during a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden at the end of August the issue of replacing the 25% duty on metal products for deliveries to this country with duty-free quotas.

KYIV, Aug 18 - Ukraine has more than doubled the amount of coal the country will have to accumulate ahead of the high demand season to avoid potential shortages, the Energy Ministry said Wednesday.

KYIV, Aug 18 – Ukraine will seek to expand its exports of grain to new markets as part of the government’s strategy of turning the country into one of the world’s biggest food producers.

KYIV, Aug 17 - Ukraine, against the background of the introduction by Turkey of an additional duty on imports of confectionery products in the amount of 15% to 20%, may stop exporting confectionery products to this country and lose $15 million a year from this, head of the Ukrkondprom association Oleksandr Baldyniuk said.

KYIV, Aug 17 - The Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture signed an annex to the grain memorandum with grain market participants and agreed on the maximum grain export volume in the 2020/2021 marketing year (MY, July-June) at the level of 17.5 million tons of wheat and 1,000 tons of rye.

KYIV, Aug 17 - Olha Stefanishyna, the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, says that Ukraine is ready to expand agricultural exports to Israel.

KYIV, Aug 18 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has provided Olam International Ltd. (Singapore) with a $200 million loan to finance the company's working capital needs in Ukraine, Turkey, Egypt, Georgia and Poland.

KYIV, Aug 18 – Energoatom’s trade union organization plans to launch a preventive protest action near the Ministry of Energy and the Cabinet of Minister s in order to revise the state policy in relation to the generating company.

KYIV, Aug 17 – The European Business Association (EBA) has called on relevant state agencies to take urgent measures in order to prevent the introduction of additional customs duties by Turkey on Ukrainian confectionary products.

KYIV, Aug 18 - Ukraine will get a loan from Cargill Financial Services International, Inc. of up to EUR 250 million, the loans will bear interest at a rate of 5.95% per annum for contracts with maturity in three years and 6.85% for contracts with maturity in five years.