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Ukraine manufacturers of paints and coatings exporting to the European Union (EU) could benefit from the planned scrapping of import duties charged on products traded between them. With the Ukraine government on March 21 signing a political agreement cementing closer links with the EU, the European Commission has released details of proposals to remove tariffs on goods traded between the EU and Ukraine.…

THE RUSSIAN nonwovens industry has shrugged off the potential impact of tougher sanctions that maybe imposed against Russia by the European Union (EU) and the US because of the Ukraine crisis, although there is concern about the loss of valuable imported inputs.…

NORWAY may have suspended military cooperation with its neighbour Russia over the Ukraine crisis, but it seems less keen to mothball its coordination on energy policy, notably in the high Arctic.

Norwegian and Russian energy companies have long been eyeing the potential hydrocarbon resources in the Barents Sea to the north of the Russo-Norwegian border, and both sides want to exploit them without causing major environmental problems.…

Russia is well placed to export more nickel, aluminium, ferro-alloys, lead ores and zinc ores to China, should the US and European Union (EU) impose sanctions because of the Ukraine crisis.

With pro-Russian activists yesterday seizing another police station – in Horlivka, near Donetsk – and the Ukraine military now reacting – retaking the regional airport in Kramatorsk, tensions are rising. …

RUSSIA has today (Monday April 7) effectively extended its African Swine Fever (ASF)-justified ban to include processed pork meat products from Poland and Lithuania, two Polish members of the European Parliament (MEP) have revealed.

Speaking during a meeting of the European Parliament’s committee on agriculture held today in Brussels, the Polish centre-right MEP Czesław Adam Siekierski said that last week the Russian Veterinary Office released an order saying it would ban processed pork meat products coming from Lithuania and Poland as of April 7, extending the existing Russian ban on fresh pigmeat products from the whole European Union (EU).…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) against Russia’s import ban on pigs and porkmeat sourced from across the EU, following four cases of African Swine Fever (ASF) detected in Lithuania and Poland.

“We are forced to take this matter to the WTO because we have exhausted all diplomatic avenues to try and find a solution,” the European Commission’s trade spokesman John Clancy told journalists in Brussels today.…

The Russian government has shrugged off the risk posed by possible economic sanctions from the US and European Union (EU) over the Ukraine crisis, but admits a poultry export expansion plan has been shelved.

In comments sent to globalmeatnews.com, Nikolai Fyodorov, Russia’s agriculture minister said: “At present the majority of Russian meat production is supplied to the domestic market, while the share of exports in overall structure of production remains small.…

CHINA has announced that it will re-admit pork and poultry imports from Chile, having suspended them last July (2013) over concerns about dioxin contamination.

China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) has however posted a statement insisting that importers submit animal health documents and no–doxin-contamination test reports from Chile’s Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG).…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved an agreement struck with Russia last June on strengthening mutual cooperation to prevent the diversion of chemical precursors from legal uses – such as in the pharmaceutical sector – to illicit narcotics manufacturers.…

NEPAL pashmina fibre is “exotically delicate, weightless and the finest natural insulation fibre of the world,” according to the Nepal Pashmina Industries Association’s (NPIA) general secretary Vijoy Kumar Dugar. This reputation has helped Nepal producers carve out a niche markets for pashmina knitwear and traditional shawl exports.…