Arbitrators of the World Trade Organization ruled that the ban on the import of live pigs and pork meat imposed by Russia to the EU in 2014, is too rigid and prevent international trade, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The World trade organization (WTO) for the second time this week supported the EU in trade disputes with Russia. WTO ruled that Russia imposed in 2014, measures prohibiting the import of live pigs and pork meat from the European countries, in most cases, contrary to the organization and interfere with international trade, RT reports with reference to the publication.
«WTO ruled that imposed by Russia in 2014 measures prohibiting the import of live pigs and pork meat from the European countries, in most cases, contrary to the organization and interfere with international trade»
As the newspaper reminds columnist, Russia introduced between January and September 2014 bans on pork imports from most of the European countries in response to the recorded while on the border of the EU and Belarus, cases of African swine fever. However, bans were to the time period of the deterioration of relations between Brussels and Moscow as a result of the Ukrainian crisis, prompted the EU and the United States to impose economic sanctions against Russia, and the European authorities have decided to challenge the Russian measures to the WTO.
WTO arbitrators concluded that the adopted Russian measures – with the exception of a ban on the import of unprocessed foods pig from Latvia – were not justified, not based on an adequate risk assessment and proved to be much tougher than it was necessary to respond to a sanitary threat, according to the material.
In addition, the WTO also considered that Russian unevenly took restrictive measures in respect of the various EU member states, the newspaper writes.
As pointed out by the author of the article, the Russian embargo was really hard especially for Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
In Russia will now have sixty days in which to challenge the decision. If it does not, parties to the dispute would have to agree with WTO cancel the embargo date, says columnist.
According to the publication, in 2013 the EU imported in the Russian pork by $ 1.6 billion, which accounted for about a quarter of the total EU exports to the country.
Recall, on the eve of the panel of arbitrators of the World Trade Organization as a whole supported the claim of the European Union against Russia regarding Russia’s ban on imports of pig products from the EU.Rosselkhoznadzor said the decision of the WTO panel of arbitrators to suit the EU Russia policy.
Rosselkhoznadzor from January 30, 2014 in Russia banned shipments of pig production in the EU to obtain security guarantees from the European Commission. The decision was taken after the outbreak of African swine fever was registered in Lithuania. In mid-February, another hotbed of ASF was diagnosed in Poland.
In the EU, the ban was called disproportionate and sent a request to the WTO with a request to establish an expert group to resolve the dispute over Russia’s ban on imports of pig products from the EU.
Last week, the panel of arbitrators of the World Trade associations generally supported the position of the European Union (EU) in a dispute with Russia over duties on paper, palm oil, and refrigerators.
Note that this is not the first EU action against Russia in the World Trade Organization, to which the Russian government has joined in August 2012. The first investigation was initiated in 2013 in respect of utilization fee on foreign cars assembly, and at the beginning of April 2014 the European Union filed a lawsuit against Russia in connection with the ban on the supply of pork from Europe. The third claim was Russian anti-dumping import duties on light commercial vehicles from Germany and Italy.
In December 2013 Russia, in turn, filed a lawsuit against the EU energokorrektirovkam, and in April of this year -. On the third energy package of the European Union
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