The Czech Ministry of Agriculture announced on Monday that the government in Prague will not follow the example of Visegrad Group partners Poland, Hungary and Slovakia in suspending imports of wheat and other grain products from Ukraine, Reuters reported.
“The Czech Republic currently does not plan to ban the import of Ukrainian wheat and other agricultural products from Ukraine,” the ministry said in a statement.
His comments came shortly after Slovakia announced on Monday afternoon that it was temporarily suspending imports of grain and other selected products from Ukraine.
This measure was taken in the context of the fact that the government in Bratislava claims that the business of Slovak farmers cannot compete with cheap grain from Ukraine and risks not surviving, accusations have also been made by officials of other Visegrad member countries. .
The Ministry of Agriculture of Slovakia has warned that it has exhausted all legal options for regulating imports from Ukraine while preserving “corridors of solidarity”.
Initially, they were intended for the export of Ukrainian grain to third countries, but large volumes ended up in European silos, destabilizing the market in EU countries.
“Additional, tougher measures to regulate the import of goods from Ukraine should be introduced at the governmental level,” the Slovak ministry emphasized.
Ukrainian wheat caused serious turbulence on the Eastern European market
In this way, Slovakia joined Poland and Hungary, which at the weekend banned the import of grain from Ukraine.
Polish farmers condemned the fact that a significant part of Ukrainian grain and other products is not distributed to the rest of the European Union, but remains in the country, which causes a decrease in grain prices.
The European Commission classified these unilateral trade measures as unacceptable.
The president of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party, Yaroslav Kaczynski, said on Saturday at an executive meeting that he had decided to stop importing Ukrainian products in order to avoid a crisis in the domestic agricultural market.
On Wednesday, the Ukrainian Minister of Agriculture will discuss with Romania the restoration of the transit of agricultural products.
Romanian farmers are making the same accusations as their counterparts in neighboring countries, and thousands of farmers in our country took to the streets in early April to protest what they are allegedly dumping on Ukrainian wheat prices.
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