AMERICAN FAT TRADES TO RUSSIA SNUFFED OUT BY EXPANSION OF RUSSIAN IMPORT BAN
October 1st, 2017
A SENIOR official at the US Meat Export Federation has told GlobalMeatNews how he regrets small signs of recovery in the US-Russian meat trade have been snuffed out by the latest expansion of Moscow’s meat import ban. US exporters, said Thad Lively, senior vice president - trade access, had been “shipping a little fat to Russia”. But with the Russian government expanding its ban to cover meat byproducts, as well as live pigs, “now that will end”.
Mr Lively noted that although the “EU was the principal target” of the Russian government’s ban, the ...
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