date:Oct 19, 2017
their products to Western European countries and therefore managed to hitch a ride with the export flow to Russia.
Russian import down
At product level, especially the decrease of the import of apples is noticeable, from 1.35 million tonnes in 2013 to 0.68 million tonnes in 2016. Relatively, the decrease of the tomato import from 0.86 to 0.46 million tonnes was even larger. The import of pears also dropped considerably: from 380,000 to 244,000 tonnes. The import of grapes was more than halved,