In 2000, for the first time since Ukraine has become independent, the national GDP grew by 6%. Even greater recovery is expected in 2001 accompanied with two-digit investment growth rates and inflation rates falling below 10%. Economists with the Prospect

The hardware sector manufactures a wide range of products that are in a great demand within Ukraine and abroad. In 1998 more than 28% of the sector’s output was directly exported. Approximately two thirds of this amount were dispatched to Читать далее →

For long, value of land in Ukraine was assessed not from the economic viewpoint, but was based on administrative and ideological principles. Land was subject to control, it was a symbol of the wealth of nation, and definitely not a Читать далее →

At the end of May 2000, the regular 56th session of the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) Steel Committee was held in France. A Ukrainian governmental delegation headed by Sergey Grishchenko, deputy chairman of the State Committ

Ukrainsky Grafit, open-type joint-stock company, is the only Ukrainian manufacturer of graphite electrodes for electric arc steel furnaces, ore furnaces and other types of metallurgical electric furnaces, as well as for lining refractory materials based o

Starting from the mid-August 2000, there keep on raging the debates of Ukrainian operators of the metal scrap market in regard to certain assignments of the first vice prime minister of Ukraine Y. Yekhanurov. These touch upon the issue of Читать далее →

New factors influencing exports of nonferrous metals are in place.

At the moment, the market for most types of steel tubes, which has taken shape in Ukraine, is definitely oligopolistic. It is characterized with different enterprises supplying similar commodities to the market.