Association "Ukrkondprom" Together with the Legal Practice Publishing House, they invite you to discuss the most relevant issues in The International Trade in Conference “Trade wars: art of protection ».

Program and registration: https://tradewar2025.ticketforevent.com 

Date of holding: 20 May 2025 year.

Time of holding: 10:00–13:00 (The start of registration of Fr. 09:30).

Venue: city. Kyiv (The venue will be notified registered participants on the eve of the event)

The event will open an interview with To thecarving StephanishinCarving, Vice Prime Minister with issues of European and Euro -Atlantic integration of Ukraine - Minister Justice of Ukraine

Host: Elena Omelchenko, partner, Head of Practice of International Trade in Ilyashev and Partners

In focus, discussion The event:

• War and trade: Global Consequences and Impact to Ukraine
• Ukrainian business in new conditions

Participants in discussion:

• Dmitry Kysilevsky, People's Deputy of Ukraine, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Economic Development
• Nina Yuzhanina, National Member of Ukraine, Member of the Committee with Finance issues, tax and customs policy
• Taras Duck, Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine - Trade representative of Ukraine
• Vladislav Suvorov, Deputy Head of State Customs Service of Ukraine
• Paul Kachur, head The Association of Cement Producers of Ukraine "Ukrcement"
• Xenia OrANDUnkind, Executive Director of the National Association of Mining industry of Ukraine
• Sergey Navigniuk, deputy Director for Development
• and others

Owners have been invited to participate, Top managers, executives legal departments and departments of foreign economic activity of large Ukrainian and international companies.

Participation in the event is free provided additional Confirmation of registration from the organizers. The number of seats is limited. Organizers reserve the right to refuse registration because of List of places.

President of Ukraine

V.O. ZELENSKY.

To the Prime Minister of Ukraine

Shmigal D.A.

Dear Volodymyr Oleksandrovych!

Dear Denys Anatoliyovych!

Ukrainian Business Council (further - URB), which includes 120 business associations of various sectors of the economy, of which they are members 28 th. business, express their respect to you and address you with the following.

A large number of participants apply to the members of our association (agrarian, industrial, IT sectors, etc) with complaints about the suspension of the process of booking employees and the suspension of decision-making regarding the recognition of business entities as critically important for the functioning of the economy and ensuring the livelihood of the population in a special period. The number of appeals shows that, that the problem of stopping the booking process and granting criticality status is not an isolated one, and has a national scale.

Article 24 The Law of Ukraine "On Mobilization Training and Mobilization" defines the purpose of reservation of conscripts - ensuring the functioning of state authorities, other state bodies, local self-government bodies, as well as enterprises, institutions and organizations in a special period.

According to parts of the first and third articles 25 of this Law, conscripts are subject to reservation, who work or are serving, in particular at enterprises, in institutions and organizations, which are critically important for meeting the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, other military formations or the functioning of the economy and ensuring the livelihood of the population in a special period. Criteria and procedure, according to which enterprises are defined, institutions and organizations, which are critically important for the functioning of the economy and ensuring the livelihood of the population in a special period, as well as critically important for meeting the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, other military formations in a special period, are established by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

State authorities, other state bodies, local self-government bodies, enterprises, institutions and organizations, that make reservations for conscripts, obliged issue a postponement of conscription for military service during the mobilization of conscripts, which are booked in order, determined by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, in the district (city) territorial center of procurement and social support, in the territory of whose responsibility they are located.

so, the given legal provisions do not provide for the possibility of stopping the processes of booking and recognition of enterprises, institutions and organizations, critically important for the functioning of the economy and ensuring the livelihood of the population in a special period.

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2-th of September 2024 beta testing of the "National Cashback" program started in 2018. It will last about a month. During this period, the system will be filled with goods from Ukrainian manufacturers, for the purchase of which consumers will receive 10% cashback.

From now on, cashback is calculated at least 7 trade networks (Aurora, ATB, Novus,  Ecomarket, Bullet, WOG), in the process of joining still near 40 trade establishments. Already registered in the program 38 thousands of products from 600 Ukrainian manufacturers

Consumers can now register in the program.

To receive cashback from the state, it is necessary to submit an application through the bank's website or mobile application, who participates in the program, or contact the department. Open a physical or virtual card, where the cashback will be credited. Now, this can already be done through mobile applications and branches of such banks: Privatbank, Sense Bank, PUMB, A-bank, Globe, Ukrsibbank, Acordbank.

What products are already covered by cashback, you can find out on the program website https://madeinukraine.gov.ua. Inform consumers about products, to which the cashback will be distributed, there will also be trade establishments.

Funds received for participating in the "National Cashback" program can be spent on services – utility company, transport, treatment, mobile communication,  sports, cinema, and others. It will also be possible to donate them to the Armed Forces or buy military bonds.

29 April 2024 Association "Ukrkondprom" signed a Memorandum of Cooperation and Partnership with the Association of Polish Chocolate and Confectionery Manufacturers "POLBISCO".
During the signing of the Memorandum, the presidents of the associations: Oleksandr Baldyniuk and Marek Przezhdziaka discussed the urgent problems of the development of the confectionery and chocolate industry in Ukraine and Poland, partnership relations in matters of bilateral trade, unimpeded access to the markets of the two countries, organization of joint events, aimed at supporting Ukrainian and Polish manufacturers of confectionery and chocolate, etc.
The issue of the Polish-Ukrainian crisis was also raised, associations spoke in favor of unblocking the borders, because such a situation complicates the circulation of goods, harms the economy and affects the processing industry more, consumers therefore suffer from this, that access to goods worsens.

Ukraine and Poland are trade and strategic partners, therefore, the restoration of the borders will renew the partnership between the two countries.