Ukraine reserved the right to review tariff obligations in the World Trade Organization at any time during the next three-year period, the press service of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade.

"To improve the system of customs and tariff regulation and to obtain an opportunity to review tariff obligations in the WTO at any time during the next three-year period (2018-2020. ) Ukraine reserved the corresponding right in accordance with Article XXVIII of GATT 1994 (WTO document G / MA / 333 of 21. 04. 2017 in Ukrainian and English), "the message says..

A prerequisite for changes in tariff obligations by a WTO member country is negotiation and consultations with interested countries to negotiate compensatory concessions on other goods in order to maintain a general level of access to the market, the report said..

Such actions of the Ministry of Economic Development are connected, among other things, with the fact that "the economic conditions have significantly changed in the country".

"The annexation of the Crimea and developments in the east of Ukraine negatively affected the conditions of economic activity and trade, which puts on the agenda the introduction of comprehensive economic reforms and the use of all available mechanisms for transforming the Ukrainian economy from raw to innovative," the ministry noted..