KIEV, Oct. 29 – Ukrainian industry in early 2010 will face a jump in the price of imported gas, and metals and chemical companies will suffer most of all, as they are not ready to for the effect this will have on production profitability, according to experts polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

According to forecasts of an economist from Astrum Investment Management Oleksiy Blinov, in 2010 the average annual price of imported gas for Ukraine will be $325 per thousand cubic meters.