SWITZERLAND REFUSING TO HELP EU FOOD EXPORTERS SELL TO RUSSIA
August 1st, 2014
Switzerland’s Bundesamt für Landwirtschaft (BLW – the federal office for agriculture) has turned down requests from European Union (EU) fruit, vegetable and dairy product associations to export products to Russia through Switzerland to bypass Russia’s trade embargo on EU goods. Under present rules, EU food products would have to be registered in Switzerland and this is “quite a long process,” said Jürg Jordi, a BLW spokesman. There was no plan to simplify the requirements so that EU-products could become Swiss. “The Russian customs would not accept ...
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