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Poland will maintain an indefinite ban on imports of Ukrainian wheat, corn, canola, and sunflower seeds despite recent changes to EU–Ukraine trade rules, the country’s agriculture ministry announced on Oct. 29.
In June 2022, the EU suspended tariffs and quotas on Ukrainian agricultural products after Russia’s full-scale invasion, aiming to help Kyiv offset higher export costs once its traditional Black Sea routes were threatened. But many European farmers protested, citing low incomes, rising prices, and competition from cheap imports from Ukraine, demanding fairer trade terms and eased regulations.
Under new EU rules, trade will revert to the terms of the EU-Ukraine association agreement (signed in 2014), with tariff-rate quotas limiting duty-free imports of sensitive products such as sugar, poultry, and eggs.
“The new quotas apply to imports across the entire EU, while Poland still enforces an indefinite ban on Ukrainian wheat, corn, canola, and sunflower seed, as well as certain processed products,” Reuters quoted the Polish ministry .
On Oct. 14, Ukraine and the EU agreed to lift some tariffs and raise quotas on Ukrainian agricultural exports to the bloc. The measures took effect Oct. 29. Compared with 2021 levels, the biggest increases in duty-free quotas were for:
- Honey: up 5.8-fold, from 6,000 to 35,000 metric tons
- White sugar: up fivefold, from 20,000 to 100,000 tons
- Skim milk powder: up 3.1-fold, from 5,000 to 15,400 tons
- Eggs: tripled, from 6,000 to 18,000 tons
- Poultry meat: up 33%, from 90,000 to 120,000 tons
Meanwhile, Polish producers are pressing to lift the canola import ban. They estimate a raw-material shortfall of at least 500,000 tons in the 2025-26 season, which they say will hurt domestic processing plants.
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