"According to my proposal the Committee supported the position of the President of Ukraine on anti-crisis “metallurgical law” №3868, recently adopted by Parliament. De facto this is a forced step. After all, the President proposed instead of 3 years just a year of increase of export duty on scrap and complete abolition of export quotas instead of temporary one. Steelmakers and the Committee had to agree, because the votes to overcome a veto, we have not collected", - said chairman of Committee Viktor Galasyuk Committee.
We remind: draft law №3868, which proposed temporarily (for three years) to increase export duties on ferrous scrap metals from 10 to 30 Euros per ton was adopted in second reading aa a whole on April 21. However, the president used a veto.
Thus, unlike the
Ministry of economy, chairman of the Committee on Industrial Policy and
Entrepreneurship does not consider amendments of President of Ukraine compromised. "As for me, it is - not a
compromise. This is the weakness of economic policy and economic diplomacy!
What could be a compromise between the Ukrainian export of raw scrap of 300 million US dollars a year and
8-billion US dollar exports of steel products!!! Between 25% of Ukrainian
industry and exports on the one hand and unreal and agitated concern of the EU,
where Ukraine exports of scrap up to 4 million US dollars a year! "
V.Halasyuk said that during the year when increased export duty on scrap of EUR 30 per ton would be in effect, Committee together with metallurgists intends to develop mechanism to further protect domestic producers and provide Ukrainian steel plants with strategic raw materials.