Český rozhlas Plus | The future of duty-free imports from Ukraine is uncertain. EU ministers meet in Brussels

It is by no means certain that tariffs will rise again - there will be tough negotiations and the result will probably be some kind of compromise. I hope that it will be a reasonable compromise, because it is in the interests of the European Union to help a country that is being attacked by an aggressor that is trying to disrupt the security order of Europe. I think that there is room for agreement, for example, on quotas, on the volume of Ukrainian exports that would be exempt from tariffs. This topic is attracting a lot of attention, especially in countries that are exposed disproportionately to Ukrainian exports, such as Poland. There, in particular, it is a highly political issue, because the group of voters for whom agriculture is key is very large.

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