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Hens Equal Hawks Now
In his yesterday’s interview with CNN, the RF PM Vladimir Putin announced that the market would be soon closed for 19 poultry producers of the United States. The U.S. export of chicken to Russia was doomed to significantly decline or even to terminate by December 31, 2008. Putin, however, apparently decided not to wait for pulling out of the agreements on Russia’s entry to the WTO. The national supervisor of consumer products, Rospotrebnadzor was summoned to expediently defend national interests in time of political clashes with the West.
The import of the U.S. poultry will end sooner than expected. Vladimir Putin told CNN yesterday that 19 producers of the United States will be soon stripped of the market access. Another 29 will better take into account the remarks of Rospotrebnadzor if they want to retain import chances, the prime minister warned.
The decision isn’t related either to Abkhazia or South Ossetia; the matter at stake is of purely economic nature, Putin emphasized, dedicating the remaining portion of the interview exactly to the crisis and recent escalation of tension between Russia and the West.
The list of the U.S. companies first chosen for expulsion hasn’t been promulgated so far. The market players say the lists are revised each year and exclusion of some companies is a common practice. For the first time, however, it was Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that announced the news.
According to Rospotrebnadzor, 299 enterprises export poultry from the United States to Russia. Of this number, 127 are the poultry processing plants. The U.S. suppliers currently control 72 percent of the poultry export to Russia (over $3 billion), the EU has 14 percent and Brazil has 13 percent. The size of Russia’s poultry market is estimated at 3.2 million tons with the locals covering 1.9 million tons of it. Poultry biggest suppliers are Tyson Foods, Pilgrim`s Pride, Cook Foods, Sanderson Farms, Simmons Foods.
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All the Article in Russian as of Aug. 29, 2008
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