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Aug 23 2006 1:28PM
EU poultry import quotas could be redistributed among other countries
MOSCOW. Aug 23 (Interfax) - The quota on European Union poultry imports to Russia in 2006 could be redistributed among other countries, mainly Brazil.
This possibility was discussed in Moscow at a session of a working group that is part of an interagency commission on protective measures in foreign trade and Russia's customs and tariffs policy.
One of the meeting's participants, Anton Surikov, executive director of the Russian Poultry Market Operators Association, told Interfax that this proposal arose as a result of the fact that bird diseases have been registered in a number of European countries. In particular, imports of poultry meat and other poultry products from the Netherlands have been banned due to an outbreak of bird flu in the country.
"In addition, the European quota on poultry meat was never set," he said. At the same time, importing companies have been forced to import chickens from Brazil at high duties set above the quota for imports. Some 50,000 tonnes of Brazilian poultry meat have been imported to Russia at these duties in the first half of 2006 alone, he said.
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Aug 23 2006 1:28PM
EU poultry import quotas could be redistributed among other countries
MOSCOW. Aug 23 (Interfax) - The quota on European Union poultry imports to Russia in 2006 could be redistributed among other countries, mainly Brazil.
This possibility was discussed in Moscow at a session of a working group that is part of an interagency commission on protective measures in foreign trade and Russia's customs and tariffs policy.
One of the meeting's participants, Anton Surikov, executive director of the Russian Poultry Market Operators Association, told Interfax that this proposal arose as a result of the fact that bird diseases have been registered in a number of European countries. In particular, imports of poultry meat and other poultry products from the Netherlands have been banned due to an outbreak of bird flu in the country.
"In addition, the European quota on poultry meat was never set," he said. At the same time, importing companies have been forced to import chickens from Brazil at high duties set above the quota for imports. Some 50,000 tonnes of Brazilian poultry meat have been imported to Russia at these duties in the first half of 2006 alone, he said.
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