EU Agrees to Extend Ukraine Trade Support With New Limits

  • Representatives agree to suspend import duties until June 2025
  • Poland retaliates with promises of longer ban, halting transit

Farmers with their tractors block the A12 highway border crossing to Germany, near Slubice, Poland, on March 18. 

Photographer: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
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The European Union reached a tentative agreement to extend trade support for Ukraine for another year, while adding limits on imports of some food products to assuage its angry farmers.

Even so, Poland, the most vocal critic of the measure, threatened to extend its grain ban and potentially even halt flows of goods bound for third countries.