date:Jul 27, 2012
rther deterioration of the domestic industry.
There has been an unprecedented growth in imports to Ukraine in the first six month of the year. According to official statistics, pork imports increased 2.5 times to 101,000 tonnes (t) in the first half of 2012, while poultry meat imports almost doubled, to around 50,000t.
Experts say the large volume of imports is possible because manufacturers can not compete with dumping prices from Germany, Poland, the Netherlands and Brazil.
About 70% of imp