Polish Agriculture Minister Czesław Siekierski expressed fundamental resistance to extending duty-free trade with Ukraine in a letter to European Commissioner for Trade Valdis Dombrovskis, citing negative impacts on Polish agriculture. The minister called for exemptions on sugar, poultry, and eggs from EU free trade rules.
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Polish Agriculture Minister Czesław Siekierski expressed fundamental resistance to the extension of duty-free trade with Ukraine in a letter to European Commissioner for Trade Valdis Dombrovskis.
Siekierski cited excessive imports of sugar, poultry, eggs, and other agricultural products as having the opposite effect on Poland due to trade liberalisation.
Poland is rejoining EU Coordination Platform negotiations to find mechanisms for gradual mutual liberalisation and safeguard provisions for specific goods.
Polish government opposes extension of duty-free trade preferences for Ukraine for 2024-2025
Siekierski called for exclusion of sugar and poultry provisions from future EU-Ukraine trade regulation
Poland declared readiness to return to trilateral talks format with EU and neighboring countries
Polish Agriculture Minister Czeslaw Siekierski said he is fundamentally opposed to a prolongation of the EU's free trade regime with Ukraine
He proposed gradual, mutual liberalization, accompanied by gradual adjustment of Ukrainian agriculture to EU standards and law
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