date:Aug 12, 2014
w markets for exports to Russia worth around 11 billion euros, roughly 10 percent of all EU agricultural sales.
A separate Russian ban on EU pork announced earlier this year has had relatively little impact, the Commission says, as farmers have found new markets in Asia and helped to fill the gap left by an outbreak of pig disease in the United States.
Brazil, the only country now certified for (pork) export to Russia, is seeing its prices reach highs, the Brittany pork market association, MPB