Trade & Investment
What accession will do to trade flows
The single market is the endpoint of the trade relationship, and a company can position for it now rather than reacting to it later.
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Foreign trade flows, free trade agreements, customs practice and the practical mechanics of entering the Ukrainian market.
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Entering the Ukrainian market: the checklist I actually give people
After twenty years of answering the same questions, this is the list. Nine items, in the order they should be done, with the reasoning for each…
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Entering the market now: what has changed
The entry checklist that worked five years ago is missing four items. Here is the revised version, written for the conditions that actually exist.
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Italy and Ukraine: machinery, design and reconstruction
The Italian commercial presence here is built on machinery, components and consumer brands, and it has the characteristic shape of Italian export: many small suppliers rather…
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The trade that did not stop: what kept moving and why it matters
Attention focused on what was lost. The more informative question is what continued without interruption, because that tells you which commercial relationships are genuinely robust and…
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Industrial capacity and the defence supply chain
Written as an industrial subject: a manufacturing base grew very quickly, and what it installed — machining, electronics assembly, quality systems — is general capability.
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Ukrainian SMEs learning to export
A small manufacturer with a good product and no export experience faces a specific and solvable list of obstacles, and support programmes exist for exactly that…
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Political risk insurance and the return of investors
An investor does not need the risk to disappear. They need it transferred to someone who will price it, and that is what these institutions do.
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How reconstruction contracts are awarded
A practical description of the procurement systems a contractor will meet, and what determines whether a foreign firm can actually bid.
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Turkey and Ukraine: a trade relationship in detail
Two Black Sea economies that trade heavily with each other in a small number of categories. The composition explains both the opportunity and the friction.
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The export sectors nobody predicted
The trade agreement was discussed in terms of grain and steel. What actually grew fastest was furniture, cable assemblies and processed food.
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Sanctions compliance for a company trading here
A company trading in this region needs a screening process, and it is neither expensive nor complicated. Not having one is the risk.
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