KIEV, Nov. 16 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development could provide a loan of up to EUR 40 million to Kronospan UA LLC, a wood-based panel manufacturer (Novovolynsk, Volyn region) via Kronospan Holdings East Limited (Cyprus), part of Kronospan Group, to finance its capital expenditure.

KIEV, Nov. 17 – The surplus of Ukraine's foreign trade in goods in September increased to $135.4 million, while in August the figure was $43.9 million, in July - $175.9 million and in June - $242 million.

KIEV, Nov. 17 - Electricity consumption in Ukraine in January-October, including in-process losses on Ukrainian power grids, decreased by 11.1% compared to the same period in 2014, to 123.534 billion kilowatt-hours.

KIEV, Nov. 18 – Nova Poshta delivery company (Kiev) launched freight and mail delivery to over 200 countries on November 17.

Co-owner of the company Viacheslav Klimov said that international delivery has already been launched to Georgia and Moldova.

KIEV, Nov. 15 – The European Union has sent a request to join the consultations requested by Japan with the Ukrainian government under an agreement with the World Trade Organization (on safeguards in relation to duties on imported vehicles, introduced by Kiev on April 13.

IVANO-FRANKIVSK, Nov. 18 - Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council has received a draft agreement to be signed between the Cabinet of Ministers, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv regional councils on the transfer of proportional shares of the state revenues in profit-making fossil fuel extracted on the conditions of the production sharing agreement to the regional budgets.

KIEV, Nov. 18 - Ukraine will pay its $1 billion debt to Russian gas giant Gazprom before the end of the year, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said Monday.

KIEV, Nov. 18 - Ukraine seek to join Turkey and Azerbaijan in their project of building a natural gas pipeline linking a major Azeri gas deposit with Europe, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said Monday.

KIEV, Nov. 15 – The National Bank of Ukraine is mulling the possibility of introducing a tax on individual income from currency exchange operations, according to Olena Scherbakova, the director of the NBU's general department for monetary and credit policy.

KIEV, Nov. 16 - The State Tax Service has unblocked the accounts of Myrhorod mineral water plant (Poltava region).

IDS Group Ukraine, a producer of mineral drinking water, told Interfax-Ukraine that Kyivsky District Court of Poltava region made a relevant ruling on November 15.