European pork may return to Russia

April 30 and May 1 will go consultations between Russia and the European Union ban on the issue of European pork supplies to the Russian market, which was introduced back on January 30.

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deficit no meat in Russia by increasing the supply of pork from Brazil writes "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" ( market participants can confirm that there is no deficit , but with one caveat : the price of pork today reached a historic high - more than 150 rubles per kg , note ed.) . "Today we have opened access to our market for yet another Brazilian company , which refused to ractopamine . We recently significantly increased the number of such enterprises. Here, the process does not depend on us, because the process of this market . The Brazilians refused to ractopamine because they realize that they can take part of the European market of pork in Russia ", - said the head of Rosselkhoznadzor Sergey Dankvert ITAR -TASS .

EU filed a WTO suit against Russia in connection with the prohibition of pork supplies from Europe April 8, 2014 . Ban on admission to Russian pork and live pigs from all countries of the European Union was introduced because of the threat of African swine fever . In addition, from April 7 Rosselkhoznadzor imposed restrictions on exports to Russia of all kinds of finished meat products from pork from Poland and Lithuania .