In 2024, Ukraine exported 99.3 thousand tons of bioethanol, with 62% of these exports provided by private producers, and three private bioethanol plants accounted for 38.1 thousand tons or 38% of export supplies.
Of the 17 bioethanol plants operating in Ukraine, with a production capacity of over 420 thousand tons per year, 12 have been privatized in recent years.As reported, the European Commission approved the volume of quotas for Ukrainian agricultural products, which will be valid from June 6 until the end of 2025 within the framework of the Agreement on a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area. According to the document published on the EU website, by the end of 2025, Ukraine will be able to supply the EU market within the framework of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area in the regime of 7 out of 12 months of the year (7/12) with wheat, flour and meslin - 583.33 thousand tons, corn - 379.167 thousand tons, barley - 204.167 thousand tons, poultry meat - 52.511 thousand tons, beef - 7 thousand tons, eggs - 3,500 tons, milk and cream - 5,833 tons, milk powder - 2,917 tons, butter - 1,750 tons.In 2024, Ukraine for the first time since the signing of the Association Agreement with the EU exhausted the quota for bioethanol supplies to the EU markets, which amounted to 100 thousand tons per year. Under the updated conditions of 7/12, Ukrainian producers will be able to supply 58 thousand tons of bioethanol to the EU market by the end of 2025.
