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ORGANIZATION  G/AG/N/UKR/5/Add.2 
7 April 2011 
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Committee on Agriculture Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
Addendum
 
  
 The following submission, dated 31 March 2011, is  being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of Ukraine .  The addendum concerns the notifica tion relating to export prohibitions or 
restrictions ( Table ER:1 ). 
 
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  The draft Resolution of the Cabinet of Minist ers of Ukraine amends the Resolution of the 
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 938 of 4 October 2010 "On approval of quotas for certain 
agricultural products, the exports of which are to be licensed until 31 December 2010, and adoption of 
the Procedure for issuing licenses on certain agricultural products and distribution of quotas" in the 
following way: 
(i) according to the draft Resolution, the introduc tion of licensing and distribution of export 
quotas on certain agricultural products  is extended until 30 June 2011
; 
(ii) the draft Resolution also amends the quota am ounts for Corn (HS code heading 1005 90 00 
00) to a total of 5 million  tonnes . 
 The draft Resolution enters into force after its approval, from the date of its official 
publication. 
 The text of the draft Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (in Ukrainian) may be 
found on the following website:  http://me.kmu.gov.ua/control/uk/pub lish/article?art_i d=163667&cat_id=32862
   
 
Justification for measure being introduced  
 Information from the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food shows that grain cultures 
production in 2010 was 39.2 million tonnes.  Taking into account the 6 million tonnes of carry-over 
stocks, total grain culture supply in the current market year remained at 45.4 million tonnes. 
 Expected domestic consumption of grain cultu res is 26.1 million tonnes, including 6.7 million 
tonnes for food needs, 2.8 million tonnes for seed s, 14.57 million tonnes for fodder and 1.5 million 
tonnes for non-food processing. 
 In retaining 5.7 million tonnes in stocks, the e xport capabilities of grain cultures in the current 
market year remains at 13.6 million tonnes, incl uding 5.1 million tonnes for wheat, 2.4 million tonnes 
for barley and 5.9 million tonnes for corn. G/AG/N/UKR/5/Add.2 
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   In the beginning of the 2010/2011 market year, the actual amounts of grain culture exports 
equaled 7.8 million tonnes (2.8 million tonnes for wh eat, 2.4 million tonnes for barley and 2.5 million 
tonnes for corn).  Thus, the availability of grai n for export during March – June 2011 remained at 
5.8 million tonnes (2.3 million tonnes for wheat and 3.4 million tonnes for corn). 
 Until 1 April 2011, 1.5 million tonnes of grai n (1 million tonnes of corn and 0.5 million 
tonnes of wheat) are expected to be exported with in the allocated quotas.  Besides this, 1.3 million 
tonnes of grain will be exported under the free trade agreements. 
 Thus, the export capability in April – June 2011 is equal to 2.9 million tonnes.  Taking this into consideration, Ukraine belie ves that the proposed measures will prevent the 
substantial growth of grain prices on the domestic ma rket and consequently the growth of prices of 
food products (including, for example, bread a nd rolls, and meat production and eggs (because of 
increased fodder prices)). 
 
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