The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
Posted on 08/09/2014 7:06:56 AM PDT by Lorianne
Russia has banned fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, milk and dairy imports from the US, the European Union, Australia, Canada and Norway, Russia's prime minister told a government meeting on Thursday.
Dmitry Medvedev said the ban was effective immediately and would last for one year.
Russian officials were on Wednesday asked to come up with a list of western agricultural products and raw materials to be banned.
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.
Medvedev also said officials were considering a ban on European airlines flying to Asia over Siberia.
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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what a genius...........
He’s just going to PO Moscow shoppers.
Access to Western goods is what they really wanted from the fall of Communism. Everyone there knows what kind of crap comes from Russian “food” suppliers.
Russia imports 40% of their food from the West. Smart move Putin.
By allowing the nose to be lopped off, the face has been brought to some sort of disciplinary rebuke.
Such self-mutilation is eventually also self-defeating. The more so because there is none other to blame for the current predicament.
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
While it’s not good for the US or Russian consumers, I do have to applaud the slap down toward the usurper.
I don’t know where your number is coming from, really.
I choose not to support Communist countries.
There are 100 countries Russia can import food from that don't kowtow to the homo-fascists in Brussels and Washington.
That will go over well with his own citizens.
Just for that, I’m going to go off my diet and eat more of that stuff.
China is just undercutting Thailand and Indonesia and Vietnam. If we stopped buying Chinese crap, the Indonesians and Sri Lankans would pick up the pace.
We aren't going to be bringing those manufacturing jobs back here until we are ready to pay our American workers 50 cents an hour with no benefits.
Russia imports 40% of their food from the West. Smart move Putin.
They have Vodka , that’s all a Russian needs
Plus, it summer here and in Europe, heading into fall. In much of South America and Africa, it's winter heading into spring.
These countries aren’t the only ones that grow food. Seems the sellers would be hurt more by this.
Tariffs.
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