Following the United Kingdom, the Canadian authorities have decided to strengthen economic cooperation with Ukraine.
Canada will abolish all customs duties on imports of Ukrainian goods for a period of 12 months. This was announced by the Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yulia Svyridenko on Facebook.
According to the head of the department, the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau announced the agreement on duty-free import of Ukrainian goods after a meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky. “This is a good continuation of the EU-Britain initiative, which confirms the interest of developed countries to involve the Ukrainian economy in their own industrial and trade chains. Yesterday, on the eve of this meeting between the Prime Minister and the President, I also discussed with the Minister of International Trade Mary Angie the whole range of economic cooperation measures that we intend to implement, “Yulia Svyridenko said.
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Previously Ukraine and the United Kingdom have abolished export duties and trade quotas in bilateral trade.
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