The bill extending the increased duty on exports of scrap ferrous metal in the amount of EUR 30 per ton passed by Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada would not apply to exports to the European Union member countries, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze has said.
“As for the scrap metal the situation is the following: even during the period when the additional duty of EUR 30 per ton was in effect scrap metal was exported to the EU at the duty of EUR 9.5 per ton in line with the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement,” she said.
She said that the increased duty did not apply earlier and would not apply now, as the Association Agreement was an international agreement and it was more important from the point of view of legal efficacy. Thus, the bill does not violate the free trade requirements. (Interfax-Ukraine/Ukrainian metal)