Weeks of road blockades by Polish truckers protesting at the border will reduce Ukraine's overall imports by about a fifth in November, and could cost Kyiv one percentage point of GDP growth if they drag on, a senior Ukrainian official said.
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    European Union member Poland is locked in a power transition following an Oct. 15 election, complicating talks to end protests by hauliers who say Ukrainians have muscled them out of their own market, using wartime changes to permit regulations.

    The Polish hauliers’ central demand is to stop Ukrainian truckers having permit-free access to the EU, something that Kyiv and Brussels say is impossible.

    It’s a sharp decrease; it’s like one fifth of our monthly imports are stuck at the border," Taras Kachka, Ukraine’s trade representative and deputy economy minister, told Reuters in an interview.

    Goods through Poland usually make up 50% of Ukraine’s road exports, but truckers have blocked four of eight border crossings, including the largest.

    Ukrainian officials say lower supplies have driven up prices of some goods, with liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) - used by about 1 million motorists in Ukraine - rising 30%.

    Ukraine’s system of electronic queuing for crossing the border was being applied uniformly to fully loaded EU trucks as well as empty ones, causing long waiting times for the latter, he said.

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