KYIV, April 28 – Parliament approved a bill that extends for five years the duty of EUR 58 per metric ton on exports of scrap metal from Ukraine in order to make ore scrap metal available for domestic producers, lawmakers said.

Some 291 MPs backed the bill at a parliamentary session on Tuesday.

One of the authors of bill No. 5175, Deputy Head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee for Economic Development Dmytro Kysylevsky, in his Facebook post, expressed his satisfaction with the adoption of the bill.