The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade opposes the adoption of bill No. 7206, also known as "Kupuy Ukrainske". This was written by Deputy Minister of Economic Development Maxim Nefedov on his Facebook page. According to him, there is a risk that the Verkhovna Rada on December 5 may vote for bill No. 7206. "The beautiful name disguises a number of harmful initiatives, according to which in any tender the customer will be obliged to overpay up to 43% for the goods, which according to the complex formula will be defined by someone as" domestic, "said Nefedov. The Deputy Minister listed the drawbacks of the bill, among which: the bill directly violates the Association Agreement with the EU and WTO rules, as stated by the EU Delegation in Ukraine;.

the bill will create an additional burden on the budget of tens of billions of hryvnia due to an overpayment for purchased goods; the bill creates large corruption risks, since to confirm the "nationality" of the goods it is necessary to collect at least 23 references. "In itself, this is a super-powerful barrier to restrict participation in bidding," Nefedov said.. "The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade categorically calls not to support this bill," Nefedov said..

Original article: MEDT opposes the bill "Kupuy Ukrainske".