Ukraine hopes to persuade Turkey to abandon its response to car imports restriction by Kyiv

12:06, 14.06.2013 1 min read

Under the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Turkey has reserved the right to impose a 23% import duty on Ukrainian walnuts from July 12 of this year in response to the restriction on import of cars imposed by Ukraine, however Kyiv intends to persuade Ankara to waive such sanctions.

"Turkey has decided to do the following: it actually reserved its right to apply this duty on a certain item, but that does not mean that this tax will be definitely imposed," Ukrainian government's commissioner for European integration Valeriy Piatnytsky told Interfax-Ukraine.

"I do not think that this rule will be applied directly. Naturally, we will be involved in a dialogue. This issue may be raised, but that does not mean that it will be imposed on July 12, as they announced. This may be July 12 of next year. We're working on it," the government commissioner said.