G/AG/N/UKR/34  
 
 
23 August  2019 
(19-5442)  Page: 1/3 
Committee on Agriculture  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
The following submission, dated 21 August  2019, is being circulated at the request of the delegation 
of Ukraine . The notification concerns the administration of tariff quotas (Table MA:1 ) for 
the calendar year  2019 . 
 
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The attached notification is submitted pursuant to the obligation to communicate any changes in the 
administration of tariff quotas, in accordance with the requirements given in document G/AG/2. This 
notification amends the  document G/ AG/N/UKR/8/Rev. 2, dated 19 July 2011. The changes concern 
the administration of the tariff rate quota for raw cane sugar and affect the following items: 
(a), b (ii), b (iv) and (d).  The above changes are made due to the fulfillment of Ukraine’s obligations 
regarding the alloca tion of 260 tonnes to Paraguay within total tariff quota until 1 January 2019.  
 
 
  
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- 2 - Table MA: 1  
MARKET ACCESS: UKRAINE  
REPORTING PERIOD: CALENDAR YEAR  2019 
Implementation of market access opportunities: Tariff and other quota commitments  
TQ ID  Description of products  Tariff item number(s) 
encompassed in product 
description  Not 
opened  Description of import arrangement applicable  Note  
(from Section I -B (or I -A) of Part I of the Schedule)  
1 2 3 
UKRQ001  Raw cane sugar  170111   (a) Allocation of quotas to supplying countries:  
 
(i) Global quota.  
 
(ii) The tariff quota is open from 1 January to 31 December.  
 
(b) Allocation of licences or of access to quotas to importers:  
 
(i) Import licence issued by the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine is required. 
Licences are issued on the approvals of the State Reserve Agency of Ukraine and the Ministry of Agrarian 
Policy and Food of Ukraine. The approva ls of both the authorities should be received by the applicants 
before applying for licences. Submitting the certificate of origin of goods (or its copy) is not required for 
obtaining an import licence.  
 
(ii) All registered entities engaged in foreign econ omic activities, regardless of their ownership form, have 
the right to submit applications to obtain a licence (see par . d) on information regarding the relevant 
procedures).  
 
(iii) Licences are issued on a first -come, first -served basis.  
 
(iv) The term of  the validity of the import licence is 90 days from the date of its signing, but shall be valid 
only until 31  December of the year for which it has been issued, within the amount of tariff rate quota. In 
the case of exhausting the set quota, acceptance of requests for delivery of licences is halted. Licences are 
not transferable.  
In case of the increase of the value of imports, the licence holder would be required to apply for a new 
licence. Reducing of the value of imports does not require a new licence . 
Changing the country of origin does not require a new licence . 
In the period not later than 15 days after the date of import licence validity expiring, the subjects of foreign 
economic activity should submit to the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade  the information on 
factual import of goods under the licence (indicating amounts).   
 
  
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- 3 - TQ ID  Description of products  Tariff item number(s) 
encompassed in product 
description  Not 
opened  Description of import arrangement applicable  Note  
(from Section I -B (or I -A) of Part I of the Schedule)  
1 2 3 
    (c) Details of other arrangements (not involving import licences): None.  
 
(d) Other information:  
 
The Procedure for allocating the tariff rate quota on imported raw cane sugar into Ukraine is specified in the 
Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 12  November  2008 No. 1002   (with amendments) and is 
available on the official site of the Ve rkhovna Rada of Ukraine: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/1002 -
2008-п.  
 
The Procedure for issuing licences to import raw cane sugar to Ukraine within the amount of tariff rate quota 
is specified in the Order of the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine of 20  January 2009 No.  15 (with 
amendments) and is available on the official site of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine 
https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/z0117 -09.  
 
 
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