RUSSIA TO FIGHT EU RETALIATORY DUTY BID OVER PIG AND PIGMEAT BAN
January 1st, 2018
THE RUSSIAN government has said it will fight an application by the European Union (EU) at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for permission to impose retaliatory trade sanctions worth EUR1.39 billion over Moscow’s longstanding ban on EU exports of pigmeat products and pigs. It has already opposed the bid at the WTO.
This was imposed by Moscow in January 2014 because of a limited number of African Swine Fever (ASF) cases. And while Russia technically lifted the ban after the WTO ruled against it last February (2017), EU exporters are still prevented from ...
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