{"id":1342643,"date":"2026-01-09T23:01:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraine-and-the-united-states-discuss-potential-free-trade-agreement\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T23:01:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:01:48","slug":"ukraine-and-the-united-states-discuss-potential-free-trade-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukraine-and-the-united-states-discuss-potential-free-trade-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine and the United States discuss potential free trade agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he is discussing a possible free trade agreement with the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-01-09\/zelenskiy-says-trump-should-make-free-trade-deal-with-ukraine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in a telephone interview with Bloomberg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A potential deal with the United States is possible as part of a prosperity package aimed at stimulating Ukraine&#8217;s post-war recovery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In particular, the relevant agreements will provide for zero tariffs on trade with the United States. The agreement will apply to some industrially developed regions of Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Zelensky, this will provide &#8220;very serious advantages&#8221; compared to neighboring countries, in addition, such a step may attract investment and business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ukrainian president is now expected to discuss the agreement in more detail with US leader Donald Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, he is already convinced that it will be an additional guarantee of economic security for Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Recall that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraina-ta-ssha-planuiut-stvoryty-spilnyy-fond-dlia-vidbudovy-skilky-hroshey-potribno-dlia-vidnovlennia\/\">Ukraine, together with the United States of America, plans to create a number of investment funds<\/a> , in particular the American-Ukrainian fund for the reconstruction of the country after the war.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he is discussing a possible free trade agreement with the United States. He said this in a telephone interview with Bloomberg. A potential deal with the United States is possible as part of a prosperity package aimed at stimulating Ukraine&#8217;s post-war recovery. In particular, the relevant agreements will provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1169891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76875,76871,76872,76873],"class_list":["post-1342643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1169891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}