Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name:N. Shagaida
Author-Name-First:N. 
Author-Name-Last: Shagaida
Author-Workplace-Name:  Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy
Title:  RUSSIA’S IMPORT BAN ON UKRAINIAN FOODS: MAGNITUDE AND IMPLICATIONS
Abstract: The Russian government will impose a ban from 1 January 2016 on the import of foods from Ukraine2.
None of the two countries however will be aff ected substantially by the ban:
• Ukrainian imports in Russia play an insignifi cant part in terms of both
total volume and as per each article of foods import (1.2%);
• Ukraine saw its share of Russia’s foods import structure (which as early
as in 2012 was more than 5%) begin to shrink even prior to what happened
in 2014. Russia’s Rosselkhoznadzor (Federal Service for Veterinary
and Phytosanitary Surveillance) and Rospotrebnadzor (Federal Service for
Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing) were
largely responsible for creating the foregoing situation by complaining
heavily about Ukrainian products, thereby making Russia-Ukraine trade
relations become nontransparent and unpredictable;
• Ukraine managed in large part to refocus to other markets after its
Russian market share shrank.
Classification-JEL: E30, E31, C81, L11
Keywords: Russian Industry, Russian Economy
Journal: Russian Economic Developments
Year: 2015
Issue: 12
Month: December
Pages: 84-86
File-URL: http://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/recdev/630Shagaida.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:gai:recdev:630