Hungary to maintain ban on agricultural imports from Ukraine
Hungarian Agriculture Minister Istvan Nagy said that the country will maintain a ban on imports of grain and other agricultural products from Ukraine despite the EC’s proposal to extend the abolition of customs duties for Ukrainian products for another year, until June 2025, TASS reports
Istvan Nagy said that for now, Hungarian farmers can still rely only on the government, so Hungary ‘will maintain the national ban on imports of products from Ukraine until an appropriate international solution is reached’.
Moreover, the minister recalled that exports of products from Ukraine were supposed to be aimed at countries in Asia and Africa, but after the start of the Ukrainian conflict ‘began to enter the EU markets, causing their disruption’. In addition, differences in production standards put European farmers at a disadvantage, Nagy pointed out.
Previously, he has repeatedly stated that Hungary will maintain the embargo on the import of agricultural products from Ukraine until an international solution to this problem is found.
