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Ukrainian pork likely to disappear from Russian market

  • 15 Sep 07:51

The imminent free trade agreement (FTA) between Ukraine and the European Union (EU) will likely lead to Russia closing its borders for pork from Ukraine. Not only is Russia to fully ban import of pork, this will also apply to other meat products from Ukraine as soon as the country will enter a Free Trade Zone with the EU. It is scheduled for January 1, 2016. Pork from Brazil, Chile or China As an alternative, Russian supermarket shelves will soon be filled with, amongst other products, bacon from Brazil, Chile or China. That promise was recently made by Alexei Tkachev, the Russian minister of agriculture. Tkachev was quoted to say, "Speaking about. Read more...