Government softened grocery embargo for baby food – BBC

The Russian authorities went to mitigate the food embargo as soon as it decided to extend for another year and a half before the beginning of 2018. However, the new concessions will affect only certain categories of citizens. From under the product antisanktsy are displayed meat and vegetables intended for the production of baby food should be the published in late May, the government decision.

According to the document of the restrictions on the importation of certain categories of products from the list will be made one an exception. Import of frozen cattle meat (HS 0202), fresh, chilled or frozen meat and edible offal of poultry (0207), frozen raw or cooked vegetables (0710), and are not subjected to the treatment of whole, dried, shredded or chopped vegetables (0712) will be allowed if the purpose of the use of this raw material – production of food for kids

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food sanctions imposed in 2014, do not apply to products intended for children’s food. However, without these refinements measures apply to raw materials which are used to produce it.

Therefore, according to the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, to support Russian manufacturers of baby food is an exemption for the importation of the products mentioned, if proved their intended purpose.

currently, the Ministry of Agriculture is developing a procedure for confirming the purpose of imported raw materials and harmonize the import volume of the procedure, the press service of the department.

Russian antisanktsii prohibiting the import of meat and meat products, milk and dairy products, vegetables, fruit and fish, were introduced in August 2014 against the United States, the EU, Canada, Australia and Norway. A year later, their action was extended to Albania, Montenegro, Iceland and Liechtenstein. In 2016, the embargo came into effect in respect of Ukraine.

The volume of production of various baby food products, according to the Federal State Statistics Service, in the past five years has been uneven.

So, from 2011 to 2014 the volume of production in the category of “canned meats, fruits and vegetables and fruit homogenised” for children growing up all the time, up from 500 million cans in 2011 to 681 million in 2014.

with alternate success increasing production of liquid and pasty dairy products for infants (from 100 thousand. to 116 thous. tons) of powdered infant formula (from 19.7 thousand. to 21.2 ths. tons) and dry food based on cereal (from 13.6 thousand to 16.3 thousand tons..)

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The number of children made juice significantly reduced. If in 2010 the volume produced by the children’s juices reached 3.439 billion standard cans, then in 2014 even with canned fruits and vegetables figure was only 2.867 billion cans.

The individual baby food manufacturers pay attention to the possibility of the closure of production facilities if the sanctions list does not make changes. Last year, the leadership of the Kaliningrad plant of the German company HiPP complained that he could not get the organic raw materials from Europe, which is why the production capacity were loaded only by 20%, reported portal “Kaliningrad.ru».

Russian in It imports a large number of ready-made baby food. For 2015 41.17 thousand were delivered to Russia. Tons packaged for retail sales of baby food worth a total of $ 219.2 million. The main suppliers of steel Switzerland ($ 74.8 million), the Netherlands ($ 61.6 million), New Zealand ($ 17.6 million), Slovenia ($ 13.3 million), Denmark ($ 12.5 million).

The embargo corrected before.

Less than one month after the entry into force of the first phase of sanctions on a list of products important refinements have been made, without which the import substitution in some selhozotraslyah could be jeopardized.

So, the import was allowed Atlantic salmon fry needed for Russian aquaculture farms, and seed potatoes and onion sets. In addition to this was again allowed imports of lactose free dairy products and dietary supplements.