REGULATORY ROUND UP – IMPACT OF RUSSIA FOOD IMPORT BANS VARY ACROSS EU
March 8th, 2013
EUROPEAN Union (EU) member states have suffered unevenly from Russia’s ban on EU food exports from last August, according to European Commission data.While Finnish and Estonian extra-EU food and drink exports fell sharply in August-November 2014 compared to the same period in 2013 (32% and 22% down respectively), other EU food exporters saw only moderate falls in such sales, or even gains. Lithuania and Poland saw their extra-EU food and drink exports fall by less than 10%, despite previous significant exposure to Russian markets. In 2013, 41% of Lithuanian ...
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