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The European Union is preparing to reintroduce tariffs and quotas for Ukraine’s agricultural products removed in the wake of Russia’s invasion three years ago. The wartime tariff waivers are expiring amid calls for stricter controls on Ukrainian imports from several EU governments. France and Poland are among those feeling the heat from unhappy farmers. EU readies farm tariffs for Ukraine, report reveals The executive arm in Brussels is getting ready to reinstate tariff quotas on certain agricultural commodities from Ukraine early next month, documents seen by Politico suggest. According to a draft put forward this week, the European Commission (EC) plans to restore import caps on a number of farm products, such as wheat, meat, maize, and eggs, which were in place before the war with Russia. The EU implemented special rules for its economic exchange with Ukraine called “autonomous trade measures” designed to support Ukraine’s farming sector following Russia’s invasion in 2022. These will expire on June 5. The measures include waiving import duties and quotas on a range of agro goods, which the Commission now wants to replace with adjusted limits under the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) agreement with Ukraine. If the proposal is approved, Ukraine will be granted access to 7/12ths of its annual quota for each affected product group under DCFTA for the remaining seven months of this year, the report details. This is viewed in Brussels as a transitional measure to allow the EC to update the EU’s existing free-trade agreement with Kyiv and renegotiate the DCFTA terms, as indicated by the executive body’s trade spokesperson Olof Gill last week. Trade restrictions to crash-land Ukraine’s economy, critics say Not everyone in Europe agrees with the plan. According to Karin Karlsbro, member of the liberal Renew Europe group in the European Parliament, “instead…

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