There are some pretty heavy hitters lining up against a proposed UWB. Why can't they do the same here? At least in Ukraine, the legislation would allow farmers to export. That's more freedom than here.
"Ukraine’s grain traders have long complained about state interference in a lucrative sector frequently seen as key to the country’s economic future...
When export quotas were introduced last year, some top international firms were shut out while a disproportionate share of quotas have gone to a company owned by the state and unknown individuals.
On Feb. 2, lawmakers from several parties made a move to increase state control further with a proposal to create a monopoly that allows only state companies and farmers to export grain.
The Kyiv office of the influential Grain and Feed Trade Association wrote to the speaker of parliament, Volodymyr Lytvyn, saying the draft law “contradicts all known standards of free trade and the market.”
"The Grain and Feed Trade Association (GAFTA), which is an international association, has asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) to assess Ukraine's initiative on limiting the right to export goods that are subject to government price regulation to producers of such goods and a state export agent. A representative of GAFTA announced this to Ukrainian News.
"A representative of our association has appealed to the WTO, 5 meetings have already taken place, and this situation was presented," the representative said.
In a letter to Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn and the Parliamentary Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations' Chairman Hryhorii Kaletnyk, GAFTA said that it would oppose the draft law No. 8053, which, according to the association, prevents fair competition and a clear market strategy.
The Association believes that it contradicts all standards of free trade on the market by giving priority to state agents in the export of agricultural products and thus establishing a monopoly on the market.
GAFTA emphasized in the letter that the draft law contradicts international norms and regulations as well as a number of Ukrainian legislation, particularly Article 20, Section 4 of the law on foreign economic activity, which prohibits creation of any state monopoly in the area of export of goods and obstruction of exports by other market participants."
"Ukraine’s grain traders have long complained about state interference in a lucrative sector frequently seen as key to the country’s economic future...
When export quotas were introduced last year, some top international firms were shut out while a disproportionate share of quotas have gone to a company owned by the state and unknown individuals.
On Feb. 2, lawmakers from several parties made a move to increase state control further with a proposal to create a monopoly that allows only state companies and farmers to export grain.
The Kyiv office of the influential Grain and Feed Trade Association wrote to the speaker of parliament, Volodymyr Lytvyn, saying the draft law “contradicts all known standards of free trade and the market.”
"The Grain and Feed Trade Association (GAFTA), which is an international association, has asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) to assess Ukraine's initiative on limiting the right to export goods that are subject to government price regulation to producers of such goods and a state export agent. A representative of GAFTA announced this to Ukrainian News.
"A representative of our association has appealed to the WTO, 5 meetings have already taken place, and this situation was presented," the representative said.
In a letter to Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn and the Parliamentary Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations' Chairman Hryhorii Kaletnyk, GAFTA said that it would oppose the draft law No. 8053, which, according to the association, prevents fair competition and a clear market strategy.
The Association believes that it contradicts all standards of free trade on the market by giving priority to state agents in the export of agricultural products and thus establishing a monopoly on the market.
GAFTA emphasized in the letter that the draft law contradicts international norms and regulations as well as a number of Ukrainian legislation, particularly Article 20, Section 4 of the law on foreign economic activity, which prohibits creation of any state monopoly in the area of export of goods and obstruction of exports by other market participants."
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