In January-June 2025, Ukraine imported USD 4.262 billion worth of agricultural products, which is 10% higher compared to the same period last year.
The relevant statement was made by the National Research Center ‘Institute of Agrarian Economics’ (IAE), an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
“According to the data from the State Customs Service, in January-June 2025, Ukraine imported USD 4,262 million worth of agricultural products, which is USD 398 million higher compared to the first half of 2024,” Leading Research Scientist of the Department for Agricultural Production Economy and International Integration at the National Research Center ‘Institute of Agrarian Economics’ Bohdan Dukhnytskyi told.
In his words, EU countries traditionally remained the major suppliers of agricultural products to Ukraine. They accounted for more than 52% of Ukraine’s agricultural imports. In the first half of 2025, Ukraine imported USD 2,235 million worth of agricultural products from the EU.
In January-June 2025, Ukraine’s agricultural imports also came from Asia (USD 820 million, over 19% of the total imports), Latin America (USD 351 million, 8%), and Africa (USD 242 million, about 6%).
Ukraine’s major suppliers of agricultural products included Poland (USD 568 million), Türkiye (USD 345 million), Germany (USD 322 million), Italy (USD 202 million), the Netherlands (USD 200 million), France (USD 171 million), Norway (USD 147 million), Spain (USD 140 million), China (USD 132 million), and Ecuador (USD 111 million).
In the first half of 2025, the commodity structure of Ukraine’s agricultural imports remained generally unchanged.
Traditionally, Ukraine’s agricultural imports consisted mainly of berries, fruit and nuts (USD 472 million); fish and seafood (USD 444 million); alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages (USD 370 million); vegetables (USD 355 million); other food products (USD 277 million); cocoa products (USD 265 million); oilseed seeds and products (USD 260 million); animal food, waste (USD 226 million); tobacco products (USD 213 million); tea and coffee (USD 211 million).
As noted by Dukhnytskyi, the increased value of Ukraine’s agricultural imports at this stage resulted from a stable demand for the main foreign-made commodity groups of food, as well as a general rise in prices for them. With this trend persisting in the second half of 2025, Ukraine’s agricultural imports may show a rise for the third consecutive year since the Russian full-scale invasion started.
A reminder that, according to the data from the Ukrainian State Customs Service, Ukraine’s agricultural exports reached USD 11.305 billion in January-June 2025, which is 9% lower compared to the same period last year.
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