Ukraine is suing Poland, Slovakia and Hungary over a grain import ban

On Monday, September 18, Kyiv will start a legal process against three EU countries — Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary.

Ukraine plans to start an appeal against the refusal of Poland, Hungary and Slovakia to lift the embargo on Ukrainian grain.

Trade representative of Ukraine Taras Kachka stated this in an interview with Playbook Politico.

According to him, Kyiv will appeal “the inability of the EU to comply with its obligations regarding free trade.”

“It is important to prove that these actions are legally wrong. And that’s why we will start the legal process tomorrow,” Kachka said in the evening of September 17.

He added that Kyiv is preparing to retaliate against Polish exports — just as the country approaches crucial general elections on October 15.

It is also known that Ukraine will sue countries in the World Trade Organization, an international body, and not through its own trade agreement with the EU.

“I think the whole world should see how the EU member states behave in relation to their trading partners and their own Union, because it can affect other countries as well,” commented the trade representative.

We will remind you that on Friday, September 15, the European Commission lifted the ban on the import of a number of Ukrainian agricultural products to five EU countries: Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Hungary.

But Poland, Slovakia and Hungary rebelled against this decision and declared that they were implementing their own unilateral restrictions on Ukrainian imports. What’s more, in Poland they emphasized that they are implementing the ban indefinitely.