Ukrainian barley exporters face difficulties with issuance of export documents, AgriMarket.Info reported on August 22. Exporting companies, in order to attract necessary volumes of feed barley and encourage grain owners to sell, have mostly increased the level of bids up to 740 to 750 hryvnias per tonne on a CPT-port basis (5.33 hryvnias = $1). However, most of the exporters continue to face grave difficulties with receiving phyto-sanitary and quarantine certificates for the volumes of grain they already bought. Issuance of the papers has for different reasons been either suspended or delayed.

26 August, 2003