Russia substitutes pork imports with Chinese, Brazilian supplies

MOSCOW, November 14. /TASS/. Russia has successfully substituted pork imports from the countries barred from food supplies to the country through increase of imports from Brazil and China, Deputy Agriculture Minister Andrei Volkov said Friday on the sidelines of a food forum. “As of today, pork for immediate consumption on the market has been already substituted,” he said. “The importer has changed. (Pork) has not been supplied from Canada, but Brazil,” he said. In August, Russia banned imports of beef, pork, poultry, fish, cheese, dairy products, fruit and vegetables from Australia, Canada, Norway, the U.S. and the E.U. for one year to retaliate Western sanctions. Earlier in November, Russia’s veterinary and phytosanitary watchdog imposed an additional ban on pork imports from Canada due to the presence of growth stimulant ractopamine, prohibited in the Customs Union, in the supplies. Read more