Assistance Programs; Foreign Agricultural Service

Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)
Agricultural Attache: Garth Thorburn
Contact: 380-44-490-0421/490-0422 (fax)
4 Hlybochyts'ka St., 5th Floor
Kyiv, Ukraine 04050

United States Department of Agriculture
Foreign Agricultural Service - Kyiv, Ukraine

Working for U.S. Exporters

The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) works to help U.S. exporters of agricultural products to see commodities in markets thought the World.

In Ukraine FAS provides the following resources:

Agricultural Commodity Reporting for the following major commodity groups:

Grains and Feeds, Sugar, Livestock, Poultry, Dairy, Oilseeds and Products. The reports are available through the Foreign Agricultural Service Web Site.

Import Tariffs and Certification

We can provide the latest available information on import tariffs on all agricultural products and food as well as import plant quarantine, veterinary and certification requirements.

Trade Facilitation

USDA/FAS-Kyiv Office can provide Ukrainian importers with contact information on U.S. suppliers and transmit the trade leads from Ukrainian companies via USDA/FAS "Trade Lead" System.

USDA/FAS-Kyiv office collects and disseminates information on major Ukrainian food and agricultural shows.

Technical Assistance Programs
Cochran Fellowship Program provides a short-term training (2-3 weeks) in the U.S. for Ukrainian agribusiness representatives in the fields of livestock, poultry feeding, food processing, agricultural marketing, management, banking and other fields.

The Faculty Exchange Program (FEP)

The FEP is a six month training at the leading U.S. Land Grant Universities for Ukrainian professors in the fields of ag economics, agribusiness and law in order to allow them to develop new and update existing subjects taught at their Universities in Ukraine.