Ukrainian grain has successfully transited through Romania since the country introduced export licences under its grain export plan to help protect farmers last autumn, Adrian Pintea, state secretary in the Agriculture Ministry, said on Thursday, according to Euractiv.
After being hit by the mass imports of cheap Ukrainian grain made possible by the opening of the EU’s ‘solidarity lanes’ after the war in Ukraine, Romania, like other neighbouring countries, initially considered trade barriers to protect farmers, but in the autumn agreed to a grain control plan, including grain export licences.
“Today, according to the data of the Ministry of Agriculture, not a single grain (of Ukrainian cereals) remains on the territory of Romania,” Pintea told Radio Free Europe as she took stock of the plan’s implementation thus far.
With the introduction of the new licensing system last autumn, Romanian traders could no longer take advantage of cheaper Ukrainian grain as they had…
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