Khakassia, 14.01.17 07:45
the First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, speaking on Friday, December 13, at the discussion of the Gaidar forum on competition, expressed confidence that the sanctions imposed in response to Russia’s food embargo may soon be terminated.
According to him, the government of the Russian Federation in its work should emanate from this expectation.
“I guess it’s time to understand that the sanctions will soon expire or contractee. Anyway, in my job, me and the Minister of agriculture, Minister of the economy, most likely, must proceed from the fact that counter-sanctions will be lifted. Even if this does not happen, it will be another task for us”, – said Shuvalov.
according to RIA “Novosti”, he noted that the food market will sooner or later have to open.
“How to develop a political agenda, we will see, now come the new US administration how it will evolve in their dialogue, the US and the EU, how will they talk to us. You know the position of our President: we are always ready for the conversation so how ready are our partners”, – said the first Deputy Prime Minister.
the Import of products from USA, Australia, Canada and EU countries that have imposed sanctions against Russia after the annexation of Crimea, Russia has restricted in August 2014. Later, the food embargo was extended to Albania, Montenegro, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Ukraine. The embargo covers meat, sausage, fish and seafood, vegetables, fruits, dairy products. In June 2015, in response to the extension of the sanctions Moscow has also extended a year grocery restrictive measures, and in June of last year – immediately until 31 December 2017.
And according to Shuvalov, it is not excluded that on December 31 of this year, Russia will renew the contractee in case of warming relations with the West.
however, he did not rule out that after the cancellation of counter-sanctions may follow treatment as in the state Duma and regional parliaments with a request to protect domestic producers from Western goods, which will start to arrive in the market after the lifting of restrictions, reports TASS. “The inquiry will be very hard (protective measures),” said Shuvalov, adding that the manufacturers should not expect that the state after the abolition of the counter-sanctions will apply any protectionist measures.
At the same time the first Vice-Premier said that the government and the regions should continue to derive maximum benefit from the existence of counter-sanctions. “The financial-economic bloc of the government together with the governors just of this of all (necessary) to extract the maximum benefit for the Russian economy”, – said Shuvalov.
However, the head of “RUSNANO” Anatoly Chubais considers that there are no real prospects of lifting of Western sanctions against Russia in 2017. “For me, this discussion was unexpected. Apparently, I’m from the former young reformer turned into an old conservative. Somehow I’m not very optimistic about it. I see no real prospects in, say, 2017 for the lifting of sanctions. Well, maybe I’m wrong”, – he told reporters.
But even in the case of cancellation food embargo automatically return to the Russian market targeted by the sanctions of suppliers of products will not, said assistant head of Rosselkhoznadzor Alexei Alekseenko on the sidelines of the Gaidar forum, commenting on Shuvalov. “Because it’s been a long time, and during this period there have been a lot of changes. That is, automatic return to list suppliers that have been before the introduction of our retaliatory economic measures will not,” he said.
as part of the process of return to the market of providers from the sanctions countries the Rosselkhoznadzor will send its experts to the enterprises for audits, noted Alexeenko. “But this is quite a difficult and long process, especially because this year we need to reduce the costs of the audit of foreign enterprises”, – concluded the Deputy head of the Rosselkhoznadzor.
Recall that November 22, 2016 the President during his speech at the Forum of action recognized that understands local entrepreneurs, who introduced against Russia sanctions have benefited, and promised to keep the embargo “as long as possible”.
Previously, analysts have repeatedly noted that the government has not calculated the economic impact from Western sanctions. Sanctions war took place under the slogan of supporting local producers and import substitution, but the effect was lower than expected, and substantive support to domestic farmers received not from the embargo and the devaluation of the ruble, said the experts.
thus, according to Western economists, agricultural retaliatory sanctions introduced by Russia have caused serious harm to European countries.
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