Russia’s Federal Customs Service (FCS) has proposed extending the 2014 food embargo to prohibit imports of all kind of meat and breeding stock supplied to the country by the US, the European Union, Canada, Australia, Norway, Ukraine and a number of other countries.

If approved, the new restrictions could affect imports of nearly 600,000 tonnes of various products a year, worth a total of US$1.2 billion.

There was a need to impose tighter restrictions on imports, because some exporters to the market had already learned ways to supply prohibited products under the customs codes of products that were still allowed, Ruslan Davydov, acting director of the FCS, wrote in a letter to the Russian Ministry of Agriculture.

SOURCE: GlobalMeatNews