Third Annual Export Forum

In 2025, global trade has entered a new phase – an era of rising protectionism and high tariffs. This is already hitting Ukraine’s trade rules with the EU, creating new challenges but also opening up space for strategic decisions. The expiry of the EU’s autonomous trade measures introduced to support Ukraine is not the end of opportunities, but the beginning of a new stage of cooperation.

The year 2025 has brought a number of new challenges for Ukrainian exports

These include the cessation of the EU’s autonomous preferences, the “global tariff war” launched by US President Donald Trump, and the strengthening of the voices of European farmers who are openly afraid of competition from Ukrainians.

However, new challenges also bring new opportunities.

For Ukrainian exporters this is a chance to rethink approaches: strengthen their presence on the EU market, find new niches in global trade, develop competitiveness and adapt faster to regulations in agriculture and industrial production.

During the third annual Export Forum organised by Ekonomichna Pravda and European Pravda, Ukrainian exporters, government officials and EU representatives will jointly seek innovative answers to key questions of international trade.

Among other things —

We will try to dispel the myths that have already formed around Ukrainian export

Is it really true that Ukraine’s accession to the EU will “kill” European farmers?

Will Ukraine take all the EU’s agri-subsidies?

And that the Ukrainian agri-sector will not be ready for a long time to comply with all the EU’s requirements?

Ukraine is a candidate country for EU membership and a special partner of the Community

We should strive for special relations even for the period before membership, laying the foundations for equal integration into the single market and strengthening Ukraine’s role in the global economy.