BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS
DATE:
16/10/2008
Belarus and Russia to create common food market - the Deputy State Secretary of the Union State
Belarus and Russia should create common food market, declared Vasiliy Khrol, the Deputy State Secretary of Union State.
According to him, Russian and Belarusian commodity producers should become the master in the own territory and withstand to unfair competition from commodity producers of other countries. As a reminder, earlier Belarus supplied vegetable oils to Russian state government reserve.
Despite Russia imports nearly 30% of foodstuffs, and Belarusian products match Russian requirements, import is held from the EU countries, Latin America, the USA and other distant lands.
At the same time, Russia and Belarus should greet own commodities on the domestic markets as they form the Union State. To date, Belarus has some problems while exporting to Russia.
As a reminder, in 2005-06, Russia limited supplies of Belarusian sugar, in 2007 - supplies of meat products. On February, 2008, Russia banned wheat and meslin imports from Belarus, reminded V. Khrol.
According to the Deputy State Secretary, Belarusian supplies total 7% only from all Russian import volumes. And these volumes can not really change price situation in the food market sector.
Source:
http://www.lol.org.ua/eng/showart.php?id=64956
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