The Eurasian Economic Union (UEA) recently approved the expansion of quotas for imports, with zero tariff, of beef and pork destined for processing, according to the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture. The bloc comprises Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
The pace of Russia’s wheat exports remain slow for the marketing year 2021-22 (July-June) due to increases in export tariffs on the food grains. The country’s wheat exports were down 18% year on year at 18.8 million mt over July 1-Dec. 2, according to data released by the Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary .
The pace of Russia’s wheat exports slowed for marketing year 2021-22 (July-June), as the world’s biggest wheat exporter increased export tariffs on shipments of the food grain. The country’s wheat exports fell 17% year on year to 18 million mt over July 1-Nov. 25, according to data released by the Russian Federal Service for Veterinary .
The pace of Russia’s wheat exports weakened for marketing year 2021-22 (July-June), as the world’s biggest wheat exporter increased export tariffs on shipments of the food grain. The country’s wheat exports fell 18% on the year to 17.2 million mt between July 1-Nov. 18, according to data released by the Russian Federal Service for Veterinary .
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Tran Thanh Nam speaks at the forum. (Photo: VNA) The online forum was jointly held by the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development (MARD), the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, the Russian Embassy in Vietnam, and the Vietnamese Embassy in Russia. According to MARD Deputy Minister Tran Thanh Nam, Vietnam is holding No. 1 position in trade turnover with Russia in Southeast Asia, and is Russia’s sixth largest trade partner in Asia-Pacific. Two-way trade reached 4.5 billion USD during the 2018-2020 period, of which farm produce accounted for around 18-20 percent, or 900 million USD each year. In the first 10 months of this year, Vietnam’s agro-forestry-fishery export to Russia stood at 469 million USD, up 32.6 percent year-on-year. Vietnam mainly shipped aquatic products, coffee, cashew nuts, fruit, tea, wood and rice to Russia, while importing aquatic products, wheat, fertilizers, timber, meat and dairy products. The tw