Thursday, September 30, 2010

Russia near to unveil meats importations quotas for 2011

Russia must unveil, by the end of September, only, its proposed quotas for meats imports for 2011. Russian officials, who have met WTO’s member-countries this week aiming at achieving Russia admission to the organism for the year end, already signalized that its proposal on the meat quotas for 2011 will be unveiled only in the next meeting.
Brazil will keep on strengthening the pressure on Russian officials as to get a more benevolent treatment for its meats exports. Five years ago Brazil and Russia signed an agreement which established that Russia would never trim down the Brazilian meats access to that market. However, in 2009, Russia handed down USA and EU the most attractive shares of chicken meat and pork importations quotas. In spite on counting on Brazil’s support to its WTO-admission campaign, Moscow has been struggling to reduce gradually the Brazilian chicken meat and pork imports.
The core idea in the next Russian meat imports quota plan is to cut off by 50% thru 2013 the current importations of 400 thousand tons of chicken meat. For pork they plan to cut off 200 thousand tons from the current 500 thousand tons importation volumes. Russians claim they can reach self-sufficiency in chicken meat and pork production in 3-year time. However, it is hard to believe this is possible as Russia’s producers, inefficient and expensive, have no means to compete with Brazil’s.

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