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Russia Saber Rattling with Poultry Legs
Published Friday, August 29, 2008 at 06:47 AM
Russia is the U.S. poultry producer’s biggest market. We ship them a lot of poultry legs. But that could change. Russia’s agriculture minister says his country could cut poultry and pork import quotas by hundreds of thousands of tons. That could hit U.S. producers hard. It comes amid heightened tensions between Moscow and Washington over the war in ex-Soviet Georgia.

The ITAR-Tass news agency quotes Alexei Gordeyev as saying - it is time to change the quota regime and reduce imports. He said – they have unfortunately built up in recent years. He suggested - domestic producers could make up the shortfall if imports were reduced.

Earlier, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin backed proposals to freeze some of the agreements — particularly in agriculture — relating to its efforts to join the 153-member World Trade Organization. Officials say Moscow agreed to certain conditions with member countries in return for their help in fast-tracking Russia's entry.

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