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06-15-2015, 05:39 AM
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Russia punished Latvia for 200 million euros



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Russian ban on imports of fish products from Latvia and Estonia hurt the Baltic producers. According to unconfirmed estimates, only Latvian firms it will cost hundreds of millions of euros.

The refusal of the Russian import from the famous Riga sprats and other fish canned food of expensive Latvian firms, said the Minister of agriculture of the Republic of Latvia. According to him, today clear the extent of damage trying to evaluate special working group.

"The size of the damages can leave from 100 to 200 million euros. Declare that it is the individual adherents of the industry. We would like to explore this issue more clearly and say, what are these values", - he told on air of local TV channel YEARS.

The Rosselkhoznadzor imposed a ban on imports of the Baltic canned fish 4 June, after a series of inspections
the quality of products. For example, the domestic Department found unacceptable levels of benzopyrene in Latvian products, reports TASS.

"After 2 months Russia will make the decision. We, of course, already expressed dissatisfaction with the
that audit was conducted for only 4 plants, and under the ban came products throughout the industry,"
noticed Duklavs.

As we were informed Days.Roux, a ban on the import into the Russian Federation of fish products from Latvia
can bankrupt a number of fish processing firms. They export to Russia of about half
own production in total amount of almost 100 million euros per year. Only sprats
produce about 20 local firms, and a substantial part of the products they send to the Russian market.


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