Foreign trade flows, free trade agreements, customs practice and the practical mechanics of entering the Ukrainian market.
For a period, Ukrainian goods entered the European market with no tariffs and no quotas at all. The effect on volumes was immediate and the transition…
When the negotiated grain arrangement ended, Ukraine established its own Black Sea shipping corridor without an agreement. It worked, and the reasons are instructive.
An exporter cannot offer a Ukrainian buyer two-year payment terms out of their own balance sheet. An export credit agency is what makes that offer possible.
There are four ways to get a container into Ukraine and they differ by a factor of several in cost and by weeks in time. Choosing…
Several thousand businesses physically relocated within Ukraine and restarted production. What the successful ones had in common is instructive for anyone thinking about continuity planning.
When the ports closed, a country that exported most of its grain by ship had to move it by rail and road instead. The logistics of…
Ukraine introduced local content requirements in public procurement for certain categories. The policy is defensible, the risks are real, and both deserve stating.
An agreement fifteen years in negotiation was signed in February 2022. What it contains, and what it will actually change, are worth separating.
Where stock sits determines delivery time, working capital and how much of the country a company can actually serve. The map was redrawn after 2022.
Written from the trade: what a Ukrainian road programme asks of an asphalt plant, and the adaptations European technology needed to meet it.
There is an investment promotion agency, a large-project support law and a support package for qualifying investments. What they deliver is worth stating precisely.
The FDI record shows what foreign investors actually believed, as distinct from what they said at conferences, and the pattern is informative.
The primary sources this archive rests on. All of them official bodies or institutional data providers.
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