Moscow, which buys more than 2 billion euros worth of EU fruit and vegetables a year making it by far the biggest export market for the products, said the ban was for sanitary reasons.
Polish fruit growers said the ban was political, although Russia denied this. Moscow has frequently been accused in the past of using sanitary inspections to restrict trade from countries with which it has political disputes. The EU said it was studying the announcement, describing it as a surprise.
The ban came a day after the European Union and United States imposed their first sanctions aimed at hitting broad sectors of the Russian economy, restricting sales of equipment for the oil and defense industries and limiting access by state-controlled banks to Western capital markets..................http://www.voanews.com/content/russia-bans-polish-fruit-vegetable-in-apparent-retaliation-for-sanctions/1967883.html
30/7/14
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Vegetables and fruit import from Poland banned in Russia....
ReplyDeleteOn Friday Russia introduces a ban on the import of almost all fruit and vegetables from Poland, including apples, pears, cherry, peaches, plums, and cabbage, said an official in Rosselkhoznadzor (Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision).
The ban is imposed in view of breaches by the Polish side of certification requirements as well as discovery of quarantinable biological forms in the imports, Aleksey Alekseyenko, Assistant to the Director of Rosselkhoznadzor, told Itar-Tass. The Federal Service had warned about the possibility of such a ban way back in spring.
http://en.itar-tass.com/economy/743182
1/8/14