“Our proposal is to extend for another year measures to exempt goods coming from Ukraine from duties, while taking care of the security of European countries,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.

At the same time, earlier European Commissioner for Trade Valdis Dombrovskis reported that the EC will give a number of countries the opportunity to limit imports of agricultural products from Ukraine.

Member of the French National Assembly Mathilde Paris said that French poultry farming is under threat due to the abolition of customs duties on imports of poultry meat from Ukraine.

She sent a letter to the head of the French Foreign Ministry, in which she asked to clarify what measures would be taken to support farmers.