OREANDA-NEWS  The Bulgarian Poultry Industry Association has demanded that the country's authorities impose a ban on the import of Ukrainian eggs for at least 120 days due to multimillion-dollar losses, threatening protests if their demands are not considered, the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) reports.

"The Association of Industrial Poultry Farming demanded that the Minister of Agriculture and Food Georgi Takhov impose a ban on the import of Ukrainian eggs to Bulgaria for at least 120 days. Poultry farmers have threatened protests if their demand remains without consequences," the radio station said in a statement.

According to the chairman of the industry organization Daniel Bozhankov, Ukrainian eggs that appeared on the Bulgarian market are 30% cheaper, which leads to millions of losses for Bulgarian producers.


According to BNR, from the beginning of 2024 to May, 2,388 tons of Ukrainian eggs were imported to Bulgaria, than the assigned quota has already been exceeded by 400%.

"These 12% of all imports of Ukrainian eggs to the EU create serious problems for Bulgarian poultry farmers," Bozhankov said.

In July, due to exceeding import limits, the EU restored previously canceled import duties on Ukrainian sugar and chicken eggs by the end of the year. It was reported that the measure will be in effect until December 31.

In June 2022, the EU suspended the collection of duties on all goods coming from Ukraine for one year to help Kiev increase exports, which led to problems with the marketing of products from European farmers. However, at the end of May 2023, the duty-free import was extended for another year, until June 2024.