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Ukraine's DCFTA with the EU normally grants duty-free access only within annual tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) on ~40 sensitive agricultural product lines (cereals, poultry meat and eggs, sugar, honey, and various fruit/vegetable preparations including tomatoes and mushrooms). Following Russia's 2022 invasion, the EU suspended all these TRQs via successive Autonomous Trade Measures (ATM) regulations, giving Ukraine fully liberalized, quota-free access to the EU market as a wartime solidarity measure. That suspension — last extended by Regulation (EU) 2024/1392 — expired on 5 June 2025 and was not renewed, following sustained pressure from EU farm lobbies (particularly in Poland and France) over import-volume surges depressing domestic prices. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1132 amended Implementing Regulations (EU) 2020/761 and (EU) 2020/1988 to restore the original DCFTA TRQ administration mechanism from 6 June 2025, with in-year quota volumes pro-rated at 7/12 of the annual ceiling to reflect the partial-year application.
quota-capped access for the first time since the 2022 full liberalization, a meaningful revenue-side tightening for a wartime economy leaning heavily on agricultural export earnings.
subordinate to domestic farm-lobby pressure — a precedent relevant to any future EU-Ukraine accession-track market-access negotiations.
certain cereals) will face renewed MFN/CCT duties for above-quota volumes, raising landed costs for EU importers of those goods.
(or formal DCFTA renegotiation) ahead of the 2026 quota year, given continued farmer-lobby pressure versus wartime-solidarity commitments.
2022-2025 liberalized volumes, once Commission trade statistics are published.