The volume of exports to the Russian Federation in January-may this year compared with the same period last year decreased by 60, 3%, to 1, 869 billion, imports from Russia during this period decreased by 66, 3%, 2, 387 billion dollars, informs the Ukrainian state statistics service. The volume of export items to EU countries in January-may of 2015, compared with January-may 2014 decreased by 33, 5% ? up to 5, 165 billion and amounted to 33, 5% of overall exports. Import items from EU countries for the period decreased by 25, 6% ? up to 6, 154 billion to $ 42, 4% of the overall import volume, UNIAN reports a letter from the statistics service. in General, in January-may compared with the same period last year the export of items from Ukraine decreased by 35, 9% ? up to fifteen, 437 billion, Imports ? 38, 8%, 14, 528 billion. Foreign trade in January-may Ukraine conducted with partners from 205 countries of the world. The state statistics service provides data excluding the territory of Crimea and Donbass territories, where Kiev authorities carried out a special operation. Remember, July 7, trade representative of Ukraine Natalia Nikolskaya said that Russia's imposing quotas on the export of Ukrainian subjects will lead to cancellation of the free trade regime between Moscow and Kiev. Before the first day of the week 1st Deputy head of the Ministry of economic development of the Russian Federation Alexey Likhachev said that the Russian Federation made a proposal to set quotas for Ukrainian subjects from "at risk" in Accordance with the maximum volume 2012?2013 in the case of the implementation of the Treaty on unification of Ukraine with the EU. Contract, have the opportunity to start working in 2016, from the beginning of the period of implementation by Ukraine of the economic part of the Treaty on the Union with the EU. In addition, since the end of July, Ukraine will have the opportunity to export to the U.S. about 5 thousand Names of items duty-free. Such opportunities Ukraine has received under the program updates the General system of preferences (GSP) of the United States, which runs from 29 July 2015 to 31 December 2017. The GSP program was most common in the production of subjects: chemicals, minerals and building stone, jewelry, many types of carpet, as well as certain products of agriculture and fisheries.
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