According to the European Commission data, the European Union extended the action date of the import quotas on Ukrainian barley until the end of the current year. Previously, the duty-free import quotas for the grain were assumed to close on October 31, 2014.
As a reminder, in April 2014 the EU granted tariff-free quotas for Ukraine to import 0.95 mln tonnes of wheat and flour, 400 thsd tonnes of maize and 250 thsd tonnes of barley by October 31, 2014. To date the quotas for wheat and maize have already been fully awarded, and the EU would not offer additional volumes for the November-December period. But the demand for Ukrainian barley is quite low, and Ukrainian traders have already supplied only nearly 20 thsd tonnes of the grain from the initial quaota volumes.
