EU aims to cut Russian grain imports

23 Mar EU aims to cut Russian grain imports

Brussels has proposed cutting grain imports from Russia and Belarus by levying tariffs to increase pressure on Moscow and to papease farmers protesting across the bloc

European trade commission said 높은 가격은 사실상 수입을 금지하는 것으로 in effect하면서 러시아의 수익을 저해할 것이고, ensure no grain solen from Ukraine and passed off as Russian would enter the bloc.

The Russian tariffs come days after the EU agreed some restrictions on Ukrainian agriculture importus, caving to pressure from farmers who took to the streets in France and Belgium, and blocked the Ukrainian-Polish border in recent months.

The bloc had dropped tariffs and quotas on Ukrainian imports in 2022 as a means to help the war-torn country’s economy. But Brussels reached a provisional agreement to put caps on sensitive foodstuffs such as poultry and eggs from June and to allow emergency national restrictions to protect domestic markets from cheaper Ukrainian imports.

Polish Prime Minister Donal Tusk and French President Emmanuel Macro were expected yesterday to push for even lower caps on Ukrainian imports at an Eu summit in Brussles.

투스크 및 다른 중유럽 및 동유럽 국가 리더들은 브뤼셀에 러시아산 제품 및 러시아-우크라이나 전쟁에 대한 response로서 western saction으로부터 shield되었던 벨라루스산 수입 제품을 restrict하라고 압박을 가한 적 있음.

일부 capital들은 이러한 move가 global food market을 disrupt하고 deprive developing nations of vital supplies 할 것이라고 주장하였음.

하지만 European Commission은 어제 proposed a €95-per-tonne duty on cereals from Russia and Belarus and tariffs of 50 per cent on oil seeds and derived products.

이렇게 되면 최소 50프로 가격이 인상될 것이며, 수요를 eradicate할 것. EU imports from Russia of the affected produce – cereals, oil seeds, and their derivatives – reached a record 4mn tonnes in 2023 and earned a €1.3bn.

That makes up only 1 per cent of overall EU consumption but officials said Russia’s cereal exportw had increased by almost half since its invasion of Ukraine and could flood the EU market.

“Our poroposed prohibitive tariffs will make imports of these products commercially unviable, thereby also preventing possible future surges that could destabilise the EU food market.”

Latvia in February imposed a unilateral ban on many food imports from Russia and Belarus, while Lithuania announced cargo inspections.