This year’s World Dairy Summit in Vilnius was, on the face of it, about sustainability. But the very location of the conference ensured discussion about Lithuania’s very large neighbour, Russia, and the impact of the EU dairy ban.
In conditions of falling ruble the prices for butter continue strengthening on domestic market.
While the market is quiet and demand is not active in Russia, the Belarusian operators have to take waiting attitude. There are still no any alternative decisions.
From Monday, 29 companies in New Zealand are allowed to supply dairy product ingredients to Russia. That is according to a statement of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance /Rosselkhoznadzor/.
The market of cheeses remains rather balanced in Russia. Decrease of consumer activity is compensated by reduction of production.
Lactose-free dairy products will be imported into Russia only subject to special registration, the Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich stated on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
Rospotrebnadzor (Federal Service on Customers’ Rights Protection and Human Well-being Surveillance) offers to tighten the rules for the supply of lactose-free dairy products to Russia from the EU. The supervisory authority suggests that European manufacturers use this provision to import traditional cheeses.
Belarusians continue to dump on Russian market.
On May 22, the Rosselkhoznadzor allowed imports of cheese, produced by two Ukrainian enterprises. According to Interfax News Agency, they are Gadyachsyr LLC and Lozovsky Dairy Plant.
Decline of prices for cheeses, which was observed in Russia in April, was slowed down in the first half of May. But the general tendency is not changed yet – cheeses continue to become cheaper.
