Press Release: EU challenges Russia in the WTO over pork import ban

On 8 April 2014, the European Union launched a case in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) against the Russian ban on imports of pigs, fresh pork and certain pig products from the EU.

Russia closed its market to the EU – cutting off almost 25% of all EU exports – at the end of January 2014. It based its decision on four isolated cases of African swine fever (ASF) detected in wild boar at the Lithuanian and Polish borders with Belarus.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: On-going discussions with Russian Federation on ban of EU pig meat - Statement by Health Commissioner, Tonio Borg http://www.europeansources.info/record/memo-on-going-discussions-with-russian-federation-on-ban-of-eu-pig-meat-statement-by-health-commissioner-tonio-borg/

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