俄罗斯停止从波兰进口苹果 波兰要求美国购买

俄罗斯宣布停止从波兰进口苹果等多种水果和蔬菜。为给苹果找销路，波兰驻美国大使要求
美方从波兰进口苹果。

波兰通讯社9日报道，波兰大使理夏德·施内普夫会见了美国农业部高级官员迈克尔·斯丘斯，
探讨美国应该采取何种步骤从而向波方开放市场，“我们希望能尽快下决定，因为情况十分
紧急”。

施内普夫说，“我们定于18日与能批准农产品出口至美国的高官举行新会晤”。

波兰是世界上最大的苹果出口国，其中超过三分之二出口至俄罗斯。俄罗斯近日正式开始停
止从波兰进口苹果。对于盛产苹果的波兰而言，俄罗斯的做法严重打击农业生产。为此，一
些波兰人在社交网络上发起“吃苹果”运动，呼吁民众多吃苹果，尽量抵消俄罗斯停止进口所
造成的影响。


China to start direct sales of fruit and vegetables to Russia
Published time: August 11, 2014 09:34
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China will start selling fruit and vegetables directly to Russia, and Baorong company plans to set up a special logistics center in Dongning on the border with Russia’s Far East to do it.
The 70,000 square meter wholesale market and 30,000 square meter warehouse, fitted out with refrigerators and other equipment, will be in a special cross-border customs zone, ITAR-TASS cites the head of the Association of Applied Economy of the Heilongjiang Province Zhang Chunjiao.
“Direct export of fruit and vegetables to Russia will be organized from it," she said.
It will cost $9.7 million to construct. Customs clearance times will be reduced, and there will be noneed to double-check the cargo because of video surveillance in the warehouse.
A Chinese company Dili, also intends to create a similar cross-border trade zone by the end of 2014, Zhang Chunjiao added.
The announcement comes after Russia introduced a 1-year ban on imports of some agricultural products from the EU, US, Australia, Canada, Australia and Norway last week. If it lasts, it could cost European Union members$16 billion, Vygaudas Usackas, the EU ambassador to Russia, estimated.
On Thursday the EU is holding a meeting to assess the possible effect of Russia’s sanctions on its farmers.
Member states have already complained their economies would be hit hard, with Germany and Poland losing the most trade with Russia, and the Baltic states – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia – seeing their shares of GDP falling even sharper.
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The ban by Russia was retaliation to Western sanctions imposed over the conflict in Ukraine.