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Paulo Roberto de Almeida
MOSCOW
— Russia announced on Thursday that it was banning the import of a wide
range of food and agricultural products from Europe and the United
States, among others, responding to Western-imposed sanctions and
raising the level of confrontation between the West and Moscow over the
future of Ukraine.
Dmitri
A. Medvedev, the prime minister, announced that Russia would ban all
beef, pork, fruit, vegetables and dairy products from the European
Union, the United States, Canada, Australia and Norway for one year.
“We
hoped until the very last that our foreign colleagues would realize
that sanctions are a dead end and that nobody needs them,” Mr. Medvedev
said. “Things have turned out in such a way that we have to implement
retaliatory measures.”
Russia
was still considering various measures involving aviation, including a
ban on flights over Siberia, which would affect routes used by European
and American airlines that fly to Asia, he told a cabinet meeting
broadcast live on state-run satellite news channels.
Narrowing
the air corridors open to Western carriers was another possibility, he
said. Mr. Medvedev announced that all Ukrainian air carriers were barred
from transiting Russian air space — effectively ending many flights to
former Soviet republics from Kiev. In the Soviet era, all Western
airlines were barred from flying across Russia, and barring them now
would increase both costs and flying times again.
Finally,
he said Russia was studying the possibility of introducing restrictions
on the import of planes, navy vessels and cars, although the government
would first make a realistic assessment of its own production
capabilities.
The
European Union’s policy-making body said it regretted Russia’s move,
saying it reserved the right to impose additional retaliatory measures.
“This
announcement is clearly politically motivated,” the European Commission
said in a statement Thursday. "We underline that the European Union's
restrictive measures are directly linked with the illegal annexation of
Crimea and destabilization of Ukraine. The European Union remains
committed to de-escalating the situation in Ukraine. All should join in
this effort."
Analysts
suggested that President Vladimir V. Putin, who enjoys huge popularity
at home, felt the need to respond in some way as Western nations and
even Japan added more and more sanctions after three rounds.
The
United States and the European Union have said that Russia, after
taking the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine last March, is destabilizing
the rest of the country by supplying arms and fighters to a rebellion in
the east. Russia denies it is fueling the insurgency.
Western
sanctions started with freezes on the assets of senior officials and of
companies linked to Mr. Putin or Crimea, but last week they were
increased to include some financing for state banks, many arms deals and
important technology for the energy sector.
Economic
analysts suggested that the measures would have an immediate but
moderate impact on the Russian economy, mostly as the country seeks
other suppliers in Latin America and Africa for most of the food imports
from Europe.
“Even
if Russia says it will try to find additional sources of supply, it
will be difficult in the short term,” said Ivan Tchakarov, the chief
economist at Citibank for Russia. “Consumers will feel some pinch but I
don’t think it will be a massive impact.”
The
crisis next door in Ukraine is likely to have much more of an impact
than the new food sanctions, but it could affect prices.
“The
key question is what the effect on inflation will be,” he said. The
bank is estimating that price increases could add one or two points to
the inflation rate for 2014, currently running around 6.5 percent.
According
to figures compiled by the bank and other agencies, Russia imports
about 25 percent of its food, worth some $43 billion annually. Of that,
about 75 percent, or $30 billion, comes mainly from Europe and the
United States. The other 25 percent is mainly from former Soviet
republics.
Wealthy
consumers in Moscow and St. Petersburg consume goods like cheese and
fruit from the West in far greater amounts than consumers in other parts
of Russia. However, the cheaper dairy products and other goods that
ordinary Russians buy often came from Ukraine and are now banned as
well.
“Over all, I think it will have a moderate impact on consumption and a moderate impact on inflation,” Mr. Tchakarov said.
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Addendum: dito e feito...
Rússia anuncia aumento de importação de carne do Brasil
Decisão foi tomada após restrição de importação de alimentos dos EUA e da União Europeia, que impuseram sanções à Rússia
Rússia anunciou que vai proibir importação de alimentos dos EUA, UE, Austrália, Canadá e Noruega (Mikhail Klimentyev/RIA Novosti/Kremlin/Reuters/VEJA)
O ministro da Agricultura da Rússia, Nikolai Fyodorov, afirmou nesta quinta-feira que o país compensará a proibição de importação de alimentos e produtos agrícolas da União Europeia (UE) e dos Estados Unidos com maior fornecimento de carne do Brasil. Segundo o ministro, o país também discute a proibição de importação com Cazaquistão e Belarus.
A Rússia anunciou nesta quinta-feira que vai proibir a importação de frutas, vegetais, carnes, peixes e laticínios dos EUA, UE, Austrália, Canadá e Noruega. A decisão acontece após um decreto assinado pelo presidente Vladimir Putin proibir ou limitar importações de alimentos de países que impuseram sanções à Rússia pelo apoio aos rebeldes no leste da Ucrânia e pela anexação da Crimeia. "Não há nada bom em sanções e não foi uma decisão fácil de tomar, mas tivemos de fazer isso", disse o primeiro-ministro russo, Dmitry Medvedev. A proibição será válida a partir de 7 de agosto e terá duração de um ano.
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