OREANDA-NEWS. July 15, 2008. As many as 160,000 tons meat imported to Ukraine in H1, of them only 28% may be called quality goods (half carcass and pig quarter carcass), Agrarian Minister Yuriy Melnyk told a press-conference.

According to him the question is about unmarketable products which are not used for producing quality meat goods. Plenty of companies grew rich on that, he noted. Thus, having paid 10% of import duty, they bring in such a product and deliver it to meat-packing factories. "The same is with meat import to Ukraine," Melnyk added.

He focused on the fact that border opening and coming-in import goods should be fair with regard to the Ukrainian producer so that peasants could work within a competitive environment.