PARIS: The European Union has awarded licences to import 440,000 tonnes of Ukrainian maize and 51,072 tonnes of Ukrainian wheat under its annual tariff-rate quota scheme, data published by the European Commission showed.

The maize volume was requested via a quota tranche offering 650,000 tonnes of Ukrainian maize this year, while the wheat was sought in a tranche of 1 million tonnes, the data showed.

No imports were requested in a further 350,000 tonne quota tranche available for Ukrainian barley.