According to marketing research “the Market for apples in Ukraine” conducted by Alliance Capital Management, in the first half of 2016, the highest number imported from Ukraine apples, but rather 62%, went to Belarus.
On the second place by this indicator Georgia with a share of Ukrainian Apple imports 11%. Next, with a slight lag in the one percent, should Moldova – 10%. In fourth place is Kazakhstan with 9%, writes Thinktanks.by.
Belarus took the first place in the rating of countries-buyers of Ukrainian the cheapest apples in the first half of 2016.
However, Belarus and she successfully imports the apples.
So the import of apples in 2014 to Russia from Belarus increased by 104% to 175 thousand tonnes, by the end of 2015 already 134% to 411 thousand tons.
According to Rosselkhoznadzor, after the introduction of Moscow’s counter-sanctions the import of apples from Belarus has increased five times. While the Federal customs service of the Russian Federation consider that we are talking about the re-export of prohibited for import into Russia of Polish apples.
