{"id":149998,"date":"2025-07-30T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/?post_type=news&#038;p=149998"},"modified":"2025-07-28T21:06:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T18:06:20","slug":"ukrayina-majzhe-vdvichi-skorotyla-import-soli-z-pochatku-roku","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/news\/ukrayina-majzhe-vdvichi-skorotyla-import-soli-z-pochatku-roku\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Nearly Halves Salt Imports Since the Start of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"68\" data-end=\"288\">In the first half of 2025, Ukraine significantly reduced its salt imports. Since the beginning of the year, 211,692 tons of salt were imported \u2014 a 45.88% decrease compared to the same period in the previous year.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"290\" data-end=\"498\">According to statistics, Ukraine&#8217;s expenditures on salt purchases from foreign markets fell by 48.46% in H1 2025 \u2014 to $26.919 million, down from $52.225 million during the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"500\" data-end=\"528\">The main suppliers were:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"529\" data-end=\"710\">\n<li data-start=\"529\" data-end=\"613\">\n<p data-start=\"531\" data-end=\"613\">Egypt, accounting for 46.09% of total imports (worth $12.407 million),<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"614\" data-end=\"661\">\n<p data-start=\"616\" data-end=\"661\">Turkey \u2014 17.57% ($4.730 million),<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"662\" data-end=\"710\">\n<p data-start=\"664\" data-end=\"710\">Romania \u2014 13.41% ($3.611 million).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"712\" data-end=\"937\">Back in 2021, Ukraine exported 710.04 thousand tons of salt worth $28.32 million. In 2022, salt exports plummeted fivefold in volume \u2014 to 142.038 thousand tons, with revenues dropping to $3.82 million.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"939\" data-end=\"985\">Top buyers of Ukrainian salt in 2021 included:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"986\" data-end=\"1052\">\n<li data-start=\"986\" data-end=\"1007\">\n<p data-start=\"988\" data-end=\"1007\">Poland (39.1%),<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1008\" data-end=\"1030\">\n<p data-start=\"1010\" data-end=\"1030\">Hungary (27.4%),<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1031\" data-end=\"1052\">\n<p data-start=\"1033\" data-end=\"1052\">Romania (7.3%).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"1054\" data-end=\"1143\">In 2021, Ukraine also imported 142.81 thousand tons of salt worth $12.92 million.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1145\" data-end=\"1322\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">However, in April 2022, following the occupation of Ukraine&#8217;s largest salt producer \u2014 Artemsil \u2014 the country virtually ceased salt exports and became a net importer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":149999,"menu_order":0,"template":"","newscat":[9],"newstag":[31535,31534,31533],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-149998","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-novosti","newstag-ukrainianeconomyukrainemacroukrainegdpeconomicrecoveryukrainefinancepostwarreconstruction","newstag-ekonomikaukrayinymakroekonomikavvpukrayinyvidnovlennyaekonomikyfinansyrynokbyudzhetukrayiny","newstag-konomykaukraynvvpukraynfynansovjrnokvosstanovlenyekonomykymakroukraynaukraynskyjbyznes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/149998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"newscat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newscat?post=149998"},{"taxonomy":"newstag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstag?post=149998"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=149998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}