Posted on 08/07/2014 5:46:33 AM PDT by Freelance Warrior
Russia has banned fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, milk and dairy imports from the US, the European Union, Australia, Canada and Norway. Dmitry Medvedev said the ban was effective immediately and would last for one year.
The agriculture minister, Nikolai Fyodorov, said on Thursday that greater quantities of Brazilian meat and New Zealand cheese would be imported to offset the newly prohibited items. He added Moscow was in talks with Belarus and Kazakhstan to prevent the banned western foodstuffs being exported to Russia from the two countries.
The Kremlin's move comes in response to the grounding of the budget airline subsidiary of Aeroflot as a result of EU sanctions over Moscow's support for rebels in Ukraine.
Russia is Europe's second-largest market for food and drink and has been an important consumer of Polish pig meat and Dutch fruit and vegetables. Exports of food and raw materials to Russia were worth €12.2bn (£9.7bn) in 2013, following several years of double-digit growth.
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Good — more food at lower prices for the rest of us.
The products that intended for export to Russia will remain in the European market, thus causing a crisis Le Figaro
Russia specifically imports 25% of peaches and 50% of strawberries that are exported by Greece. To Vima
Russians eat a lot of crap. Lower grade fruit/veg, high fat pork/beef, etc. Exporters of that stuff will have a problem since nobody else wants that garbage. All the high quality stuff will be easily absorbed by other markets. Putinists are whistling past the graveyard on this one because only the Russian people will be hurt.
Yep —
A lot of it rots in Russian ports with Russia workers refusing to unload it as Russian thieves continue to negotiate for a lower price.
And most of this thievery is subsidized by loans from the World Bank that are never paid back.
And we depend on them to get into space!
Is 50% of the Greek strawberry garbage?
I don't think this is for long. NASA is developing a new generation of rockets.
Shooting wars often start this way.
Step 1.) Sanctions, boycotts, blockades...
Russians in Europe are already talking about war.
I met one such Russian yesterday, just West of the Ukraine.
Perhaps Kondratieff was right (long wave cycle of economic crises, war, disease) and all those naysaying Economists who nix his ideas need to rethink.
Greece isn’t going to have a problem selling good strawberries. Better question is why isn’t Russia growing it’s own strawberries?
Everybody is laughing at your threats. Russia has been pulling these economic war stunts in the Baltics for years with no effect. Producers there admit they sell the low quality to Russia. So really we are talking about Russian “sanctions” affecting the bottom rung of one industry. That is a pimple on the behind of the EU elephant. OTOH, poor and average Russians will get hammered with food inflation. Russia fail. Again.
The shooting war has already started. Russia is firing artillery into Ukraine on a daily basis. We have a transnational war in Europe now.
As Putin is fond of saying, “So long as there is bark on some of the trees, the Russian people will have something to eat.”
ie Chobani genetically modified yogurt?
(Chuck shumer’s favorite yogurt maker money donor)
Really? I'd rather say depending on the demand. If there're lots of good strawberries in the market, they're screwd. 50% is much.
Look at the figure: fifty percent. Fifty. Do you really think those strawberries are of poor quality?
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