Yanukovych invited Putin a free hand in trade

Viktor Yanukovych and President Vladimir Putin during a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Viktor Yanukovych raised the issue of goods, exemptions from free trade regime between Ukraine and Russia. For the sake of increasing turnover Yanukovych proposed to lift restrictions, "We have some questions that we with you together to decide on exceptions to somewhere lower our joint turnover. If we remove them, according to the calculations of our experts, this year we can already reach $ 50 billion turnover. I remember we once had with you in previous years were happy, when turnover reached 30 billion, and now it is 50 billion, and it is a reality, "- said Yanukovych. As the press service of Putin, Yanukovych proposed to address these issues, "volitional decision - just as we did before." Estimated Yanukovych, the trade turnover between Ukraine and Russia $ 2 billion higher than before the crisis. In the list of exceptions to free trade between Ukraine and Russia the number of sugar (code UKT VED 1701 99 October 2000).