Trade liberalisation and opening in post-soviet limited access orders

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Table 1. Ukraine’s key sectors with the highest shares in exports to the EU, in %.

Rank	Pre-WTO 2007 export share, total export volume in billion €	Post-WTO/post-Crisis 2011 export share, total export volume in billion €	Pre-DCFTA 2013 export share, total export volume in billion €	Post-DCFTA 2017 export share, total export volume in billion €
1.	Metals (33.4%, 4.2), e.g. iron and steel, copper, aluminium	Metals (31.3%, 4.7)	Agrifood (27.3%, 3.8)	Agrifood (32.3%, 5.4)
2.	Mineral Products (19,3%, 2.4), e.g. ores, slag, ash, mineral fuels, oils, waxes	Mineral Products (24.0%, 3.6)	Metals (25.4%, 3.5)	Metals (21.0%, 3.5)
3.	Agrifood (9.6%, 1.2), e.g. cereals, sugars, dairy, meat	Agrifood (17.0%, 2.6)	Mineral Products (19.1%, 2.7)	Mineral Products (15.2%, 2.5)
4.	Machinery / Electrical (7.6%, 0.95), e.g. electrical machinery, sound recorders, TV image, nuclear machinery	Machinery / Electrical (8.3%, 1.3)	Machinery/ Electrical (8.7%, 1.2)	Machinery / Electrical (11.3%, 1.9)

Source: Eurostat 2019, own calculations.

Figure 1. Ukraine's exports of animal and vegetable products to the EU. Source: Eurostat 2019. Note that the bars correspond to the left scale, while the lines correspond to the right scale.

Eurostat. 2019. “International Trade in Goods.” Accessed 20 January 2019. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/international-trade-in-goods/data/database.

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