PRESIDENT IS CONCERNED ABOUT STATE OF FOREIGN TRADE

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22.12.09 | opinion

The President, in his letter to the Prime Minister, expressed his concern about the state of the foreign trade of the country, as well as about complications in the conditions of access to goods markets for Ukrainian commodity producers. The volume of exports of Ukrainian made goods, based on results for the first 10 months of 2009, declined as compared to the same period of the previous year: to the US – by 90.1 per cent or by USD 1.6 bln; to the Russian Federation – by 53.1 per cent (by USD 7.5 bln); to the EU – by 53.1 per cent (by USD 8.4 bln).

The President has been particularly concerned with numerous complaints of Ukrainian producers of pipe and tube products in regard to their anxiety of the threat of being ousted from the Russian market. Victor Yushchenko requires Yuliya Tymoshenko to put forth the maximum effort for the earliest possible settlement of the above problem by the Russian side in accordance with the understandings set forth in the Protocol of the fifth session of the Committee on Economic Cooperation of the Ukraine - Russia Intergovernmental Commission.

Besides, the head of the state calls on the Government to draw attention to the issues of real protection of the Ukrainian chemical industry, which is currently in the difficult financial and economic state and is losing its positions throughout markets, as well as to undertake some efficient measures to ensure the expansion of the presence of Ukrainian products of high technology sectors with high added value on prospective sales markets.