European Union has awarded all of the duty-free Ukrainian wheat and maize imports available for 2018 after bids from importers far exceeded the volumes on offer. In the first bidding round for this year’s quotas, the EU awarded all of the 1.035 million tonnes of Ukrainian wheat and 1.125 million tonnes of Ukrainian maize on offer in 2018. The bloc also awarded the entire volume of 138,994 tonnes of any-origin maize imports available for first half of 2018 under a separate duty-free quota. The any-origin maize quota was also overbid, with importers to receive 1.7 percent of volumes sought. EU also awarded smaller amounts of grain imports under other reduced-tariff quotas. This included nearly 16,000 tonnes of duty-free Ukrainian barley, out of a total 615,000 tonnes on offer this year, and about 36,000 tonnes of reduced-tariff wheat imports of any origin except the United States and Canada