Posted on 08/09/2014 7:06:56 AM PDT by Lorianne
Make products cheaper at home. The free market has a way of closing down over priced merchants.
Not to mention that Putin has the support of at least a majority who will be willing to belt-tighten to smack the West.
http://en.ria.ru/russia/20070516/65597324.html
http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1117497.html
http://rbth.com/articles/2010/10/06/russia_cuts_meat_imports05008.html
http://www.photius.com/countries/russia/economy/russia_economy_foreign_trade.html
But I digress. If you search on "Russia imports 40% of its food" you'll see all the articles on it.
You're Welcome
And meanwhile, we import unmarked poisoned crap from China. Why not simply eat what WE grow.
Wouldn’t substituting sources so far away incur massive shipping cost? And not everything has such a long shelf life.
I would happily pay a premium for the incredible quality of beef from Argentina, if they can work out that deal I guess that would be one bright spot for both of them.
But a lot of the other substitutions will be more costly and worse product
Lots of opportunities to get out of unprofitable contracts. Russian food prices going up.
Makes more sense to me.
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