Russia Cutting Poultry Product Imports In Move to Bolster Domestic Producers: American exporters resigned to situation; tensions between US and Russia don't help

摘要

While the Russians were march-ing through Georgia, they were also gearing up to cut poultry and pork import quotas by hundreds of thousands of tons, Agriculture Minister Alexei Gordeyev revealed at the end of August. "It is time to change the quota regime and reduce imports, which have unfortunately built up in recent years," Gordeyev told reporters, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency. US exporters had agreed a month earlier to accept lower quotas, without being told what those quotas might be.