25.03.2014 15:20

Europe rebutted the fears of the Ukrainian entrepreneurs

A roundtable on “The trade with the EU in terms of deepening and all-embracing free-trade zone (FTZ+)” was held today in Kyiv. The British ambassador to Ukraine, Simon Smith, the government plenipotentiary of Ukraine on Eurointegration, Valery Pyatnitskiy, and the director of the British consulting company CTA, Mark Haylier, participated in it.

They paid special attention to breaking the most popular myths about the possible negative consequences of signing an agreement on the free-trade zone (FZT) with the EU for Ukrainian business. Here are their rebuttals to these concerns. 

Myth 1. The agreement on the free-trade zone with the EU may limit the possibility of [Ukraine] trading with other countries.

The signing of the agreement will have no impact on the agreements signed by Ukraine earlier with other countries. The document says nothing about harmonization of the state’s trade…