CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CALLS ON RUSSIA TO LIFT GEORGIA WINE BAN
September 1st, 2007
BY MARK ROWE
GEORGIA'S 18-month ban on wine exports to Russia is entirely unjustified the American Chamber of Commerce in Georgia, a business organisation cultivating commercial links with the USA, has claimed. "Foreign capital investments in modern growing and production techniques, and a counterfeit crackdown by Georgia's government, have raised the quality of Georgian wine," said a spokeswoman for chamber. The chamber disputes Russia's official reasons for the embargo imposed in March 2006 - alleged dangerously high pesticide residues. Indeed, the ...
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