Zootecnica International - World Poultry Journal

According to Maxim Medvedkov, Head of the Russian Ministry's Department for trade negotiations, Russia and the United States have recently signed a new 2009 meat deal, cutting US poultry imports and increasing import duties on pork and poultry supplies above quotas. The deal had a favourable reception by the US trade mission in Russia, declaring that this new agreement would enable US meat exporters to continue supplies to the Russian market.
In 2008, Russia's quotas for poultry meat imports totalled around 1.2 million metric tonnes, including 870,000 tonnes from the United States. Russia cut its 2009 quota for poultry imports from all countries from 1.25 million to 952,000 metric tonnes. Under the new quotas, poultry supplies from the European Union will be cut by 60,000 metric tonnes while US poultry imports will be reduced by 180,000 metric tonnes in 2009.