UKRAINE LOST USD4 MILLION DUE TO RUSSIAN MEAT TRADE RESTRICTIONS
December 1st, 2014
UKRAINE has lost some USD4 million (EUR3.2 million) in revenues following Russian cattle and pork meat import restrictions imposed in 2013 and 2014, data provided by the European Commission shows. A regime of intensified laboratory control over bovine meat from Ukraine starting in 2013 and a ban on the previously permitted annual import of 40 tonnes of frozen beef from Ukraine to Russia imposed since July 14 (2014) has cost the Ukraine meat sector USD3 million (EUR2.4 million), according to Brussels.A ban on the import of pork meat and other pork products from ...
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