KIEV, Aug. 30 – An agreement on the creation of a free-trade area (FTA) within the CIS is strategically important for Ukraine and will effectively work for the benefit of all CIS member states, of the National Security and Defense Council Secretary Andriy Kliuyev said.

KIEV, Aug. 30 - Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant (NFP), Ukraine’s biggest ferroalloy producer, may suspend output by the end of the year unless the government takes steps to lower power prices and restrict ferroalloy imports, the company said Thursday.

KIEV, Aug. 30 - Korea Gas Corporation seeks to participate in a project to build $1 billion liquefied natural gas terminal in Ukraine, Vladyslav Kaskiv, the head of a state agency supervising the project, said.

KIEV, Aug. 29 – The surplus of Ukraine's consolidated balance of payments in July 2011 amounted to $108 million, compared to a deficit of $376 million in June, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 29 – Ukrnafta, Ukraine's largest oil producing company, has hired two companies to conduct 3D seismic prospecting via a plane-table survey at six hydrocarbon deposits in Lviv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Poltava and Kharkiv regions.

KIEV, Aug. 29 - Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk says he hopes that Parliament will lift grain export duties early in September.

KIEV, Aug. 27 – Ukraine's Finance Ministry on Friday issued the second tranche of government domestic loan bonds worth almost UAH 2.05 billion to repay delayed value-added tax refunds (VAT bonds).

KIEV, Aug. 30 – Residents of apartments that have less than 40 square meters per person will not have to pay property taxes, Deputy Prime Minister for Euro 2012 Borys Kolesnikov has said in an interview with the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Mirror Weekly) newspaper.

KIEV, Aug. 30 – Consumer confidence in Ukraine fell by 8.1 percentage points in July against the background of worsening economic expectations, according to a survey by the International Centre for Policy Studies and GfK Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 28 – The deficit of Ukraine’s national budget in January-July 2009 came to UAH 15.352 billion, growing by 44.8% or UAH 4.748 billion.

A posting on the Web site of Ukraine’s Finance Ministry says that the deficit of the budget’s general fund in January-July 2009 reached UAH 17.877 billion, which is UAH 3.805 billion up from H1.