Slovakia is temporarily suspending the import of grain and other selected products from Ukraine, the Bratislava government announced on Monday, Reuters and TASR and Agerpres reported.

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For this purpose, a meeting of the interdepartmental working group will be held today.

In this way, Slovakia joined Poland and Hungary, which at the weekend banned the import of grain from Ukraine.

The European Commission classified these unilateral trade measures as unacceptable.

According to TASR, the business of Slovak farmers cannot compete with cheap grain from Ukraine and risks not surviving.

The Ministry of Agriculture of this country warned that it has exhausted all legal possibilities to regulate imports from Ukraine and at the same time preserve the “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.

After the discovery of contaminated wheat imported from Ukraine last week, the Slovak authorities banned the processing and sale of Ukrainian grain not only in the food chain, but also in the feed chain. Border control and other relevant measures were also strengthened.

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