The European Commission refused to increase the quota for Ukrainian wheat imports

The European Commission has refused to revise the quota for Ukrainian wheat imports, but another quota remains available for exporters.

This is a separate EU quota for third countries in the amount of 2.3 million tons. This was stated by Oleksandra Avramenko, the head of the Ukrainian Agricultural Cooperation Committee on European Integration, at Grain and Processing 2026, Latifundist reports.

She said that Ukraine had applied to the European Commission with a request to increase the quota for wheat. But they replied that the trade conditions between Ukraine and the EU were revised last year, so they are not planning to increase the quota at the moment.

However, Avramenko noted that in addition to the quotas within the framework of Ukraine’s trade agreements with the EU, there are separate EU quotas open to third countries under WTO rules, and Ukraine can also use them.

In particular, a quota of 2.3 million tons is available for wheat – according to Avramenko, it is currently almost unused.

Within this quota, the duty on supplies is 12€/ton. At the same time, the quota directly for Ukrainian wheat, amounting to about 1.3 million tons, has already been fully used, and the out-of-quota duty of 95€/ton significantly complicates further exports.

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