MOSCOW, Nov. 20 – Russia and Ukraine will sign by the end of 2009 a protocol to the agreement on the regulation of the supply of some types of Ukrainian pipe products to Russia that will prolong the agreement through 2010, reads a protocol signed following a meeting of the economic cooperation committee of the Ukrainian-Russian intergovernmental commission.

The sides are to agree at the bilateral level the replacement of the tariff setting method (a special safeguarding duty) to regulate imports of stainless steel pipes from Ukraine to Russia with a non-tariff one (a quota).