“Soyuzmoloko” proposed the expansion of the food embargo for the EU – Russian newspaper

In the future, a real Greek salad with cheese fetaksa and even some sort of Russian cheese may temporarily fall into oblivion. As told to “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” in the industry association “Soyuzmoloko” milkmen are asking the authorities to tighten the embargo grocery due to legal loopholes that allow foreign importers to legally import the goods.

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The Russian dairy business appealed to the Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich and Agriculture Minister Nikolai Fyodorov requested strengthen control over the import of milk and amend kontrsanktsionnoe government decree № 778 dated August 7 last year, which imposed an embargo on food products from the European Union, Norway, USA, Canada and Australia. About it, “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” a source told the association.

Industry Association “Soyuzmoloko” in letters to government officials asking to extend the sanctions list to include a ban on imports of cheese-like products produced from vegetable fats. Such products have a code 1901909900 on the commodity nomenclature of foreign economic activity, and this code was not included in the list of banned. According to the Federal Customs Service, imports of these products from France, Denmark, Lithuania and Poland in November-December 2014 reached 6,000 tons. It’s about syrozamenitelyah. In the Russian retail products with them are known as “Edan”, “Rypitsky”, “Tylzhitski”, “Russian premium”, “Adam”, “Tilsit cheese”, “Gouda”, “Apetina”, “Sirtaki for Greek salad Light”, as well as the “Paris Burenka”.

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“Soyuzmoloko” in his letters indicates that the customs authorities on formal grounds allowed to import, but no one has tested samples. “Cheese-like products Rosselkhoznadzor not checked, since there is no animal fats. In fact, the embargo has a legal hole that we want to close”, – told to “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” in “Soyuzmoloko”.

Often in Russia under the guise of “cheese product with vegetable fat” imported cheeses of European origin, speak in “Soyuzmoloko.” And this is done often with the use of offshore schemes. In addition, in late 2014 began shipping from Poland and Lithuania on the cheese-like products “offshore contracts” with the help of such schemes to change the country of origin. Due to such contracts through re-exporters to the Russian Federation were 2.8 thousand tons of cheese. Their places of origin shall Serbia, Albania and Turkey, milkmen write in his letters to the government. There was also an exotic country dairy supplies – Uzbekistan, the country has increased by 19 times the purchase of milk and dairy products from Lithuania and now sells them in Russia.

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