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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11135

20 August 2014
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) agriculture
Russian ban on most EU food products

Brussels, 19/08/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 7 August, Russia announced that it had decreed a “total ban” on most food products from, amongst others, the European Union and the United States, in a stinging response to Western sanctions against Moscow (see EUROPE 11134).

This import ban, to run for one year, concerns beef, pork, poultry, fish, cheese, milk, vegetables and fruit from the EU and also from the USA, Australia, Canada and Norway.

However, the embargo could be lifted if...