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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a law which removes hurdles hampering the tax-free importation of defensive weapons from the United States, Canada, Brazil, China, India and most of the European countries.

Law No.168-VIII of February 10 2015 amends Paragraph 1 of the Law on Amendments to the Tax Code on ax Exemptions for Defense-Purpose Products, the presidential press service reported.

The law also bans deliveries of defense-purpose products from the “occupier and aggressor states,” and from the country’s occupied territory.