date:Aug 07, 2014
tandards agency, as saying. Fruit and vegetables from EU will be covered by the total ban, he added.
No one was available for comment at the VPSS (Phytosanitary Surveillance Service), but earlier Alekseenko told Reuters that retaliatory action would be quite substantial, and include U.S. poultry. Russians have a strong appetite for U.S. chicken, buying 276,100 tonnes of it last year, or 8 percent of U.S. exports.
A spokesman for the European Commission in Brussels said he had no immediate comm