Russia has reduced quotas on poultry and pork imports in 2010: referring to the government's decree the amount of poultry meat and offal quotas imports to Russia next year will amount to 780,000 t compared to 952,000 t in 2009.
Andrei Slepnev, Deputy Minister of Economic Development, explained that importers who did not use quotas on meat imports to Russia in 2009 will not receive them in 2010. Moreover, he added that the growth of the domestic meat production was the main reason of the quotas reduction. According to Slepnev, until February 2010 Russia's government will consider the opportunity of selling part of quotas through the auction. Auctions can be launched in 2011.
