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Russia plans more protective measures 05 Feb 2010
Russia is planning to continue the reduction of meat imports in the coming years as part of the new food security policy recently approved by the government.
By Evegen Vorotnikov
According to the policy, the share of the locally produced meat on the domestic market must be at least 85% in the coming years. Russia also wants to grow the amount of locally produced meat to exports to foreign markets.
Further restrictions on meat imports as well as using of other appropriate “protective” measures against imports will be considered as the main means for achieving these goals. In addition, Russia will ban imports of any meat products containing GM ingredients. Meanwhile, most of the local experts are skeptical about the ambitious plans of the Russian government.
According to Sergey Yushin, Head of executive committee of National Meat Association, currently Russia lacks large companies which specialize in producing pork and beef, so the local meat-processing plants have to buy imported meat.
At the same time, the President of the Russian Meat Union, Musheg Mamikonyan believes that in order to increase the share of the domestic meat in the Russian market up to 85%, the Russian government will have to create large meat import barriers and to provide guarantees for the domestic producers to obtain long-term loans, no less than 10-15 years.
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