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Russia Bans All US Food Imports in Response to Sanctions
Fox News via Reuters ^ | 8-06-2014

Posted on 08/06/2014 9:39:44 PM PDT by GeronL

http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/08/06/russia-bans-all-us-food-imports-response-sanctions

Russia will ban all imports of food from the United States and all fruit and vegetables from Europe, the state news agency reported on Wednesday, a sweeping response to Western sanctions imposed over its support for rebels in Ukraine.

The measures will hit consumers at home who rely on cheap imports, and on farmers in the West for whom Russia is a big market. Moscow is by far the biggest buyer of European fruit and vegetables and the second biggest importer of U.S. poultry.

(Excerpt) Read more at nation.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Russia
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To: wetphoenix

You are correct...But you have to see that this will have an effect on those things we need the “rare earth elements” for...

But hey...In the long run it very well may not be that much of an impact...

Someone will make a deal, somewhere, somehow, someway...

The almighty $$$$, yen, pounds, francs, dinars, rubles, etc etc etc, will always triumph...

Ohhh, forgot the Pesos and Pasetas...Muh bad...


41 posted on 08/07/2014 4:16:23 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (I will settle for a "perfectly good, gently used" kidney...Apply within...)
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To: McGruff

“You believe everything your government tells you? “

I’m with you. Russia has PLENTY OF OPTIONS now. The 3rd World is not even close to what it was even 20 years ago - HUGE MARKETS now and Russia will move that way.


42 posted on 08/07/2014 4:21:18 AM PDT by BobL
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To: GeronL

Well, this will raise prices for ordinary Russians and put pressure on those businesses in Russia that export to the US. Trade wars hurt everyone and Putin will learn that lesson.

Hopefully, most of what the Russians import is bacon and prices will slide.


43 posted on 08/07/2014 4:37:35 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: GeronL

That would be foolish without a central plan and a cadre of experts to implement it.


44 posted on 08/07/2014 4:38:45 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: wetphoenix

Americans don’t eat chicken legs and thighs and they are exported at cheap prices to get rid of them.

It is not just Russia that buys them.


45 posted on 08/07/2014 4:48:01 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: stevie_d_64

Titanium does come to mind. I did a quick search and found that the leading countries for titanium production include Japan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and China.


46 posted on 08/07/2014 5:33:14 AM PDT by MRadtke (Light a candle or curse the darkness?)
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To: GeronL

This is going to hit the ag sector pretty hard. Though to be fair, Russia has had a long term goal to make all of their foodstuffs at home for a decade now. The issue was quality, and they have made great advances in that.


47 posted on 08/07/2014 5:47:20 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: wetphoenix
They even have a beer made out of fermented horse milk.



I wouldn't exactly call kumys beer... more of a "sparkling", watery buttermilk. More medicinal than beverage, but then I say the same thing about vodka ;-)

I never could get into konina - that canary yellow fat just doesn't appeal.
48 posted on 08/07/2014 6:06:44 AM PDT by struwwelpeter
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To: GeronL

Good, given food price inflation it might be nice to have more supply heare at home.


49 posted on 08/07/2014 6:09:28 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: AnAmericanInEngland

That was when America had leaders that cared about America and its values and a more robust manufacturing sector...


51 posted on 08/07/2014 6:52:42 AM PDT by bill1952 (taxes don't hurt the rich, they keep YOU from becoming rich.)
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To: struwwelpeter

~I wouldn’t exactly call kumys beer... more of a “sparkling”, watery buttermilk. More medicinal than beverage, but then I say the same thing about vodka ;-)~

Kumys ranges from softdrink to about 20% vol.


52 posted on 08/07/2014 6:53:39 AM PDT by wetphoenix
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To: GeronL

Well that’s it.....I’m boycotting the “Trolololo” video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTSA_sWGM44


53 posted on 08/07/2014 6:56:06 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: MRadtke; stevie_d_64

~Titanium does come to mind. I did a quick search and found that the leading countries for titanium production include Japan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and China.~

BTW, titanium is extremely difficult to work on and Russia has the most expertise about it.
Most of Boeing’s (both civilian and military) titatium components are coming from VSMPO, Co of Russia as a ready parts, fully manufactured there and imported back to USA.
This exact company builds for Russian Navy and Air Force at the same facilities.


54 posted on 08/07/2014 7:02:21 AM PDT by wetphoenix
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To: wetphoenix

But it is an outstanding substance to use for neat things...

Re-usuable spacecraft comes to mind...A honeycomb undersurface and skin bleeds off heat very nicely...

Just a knee jerk thought...;-)


55 posted on 08/07/2014 8:30:54 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (I will settle for a "perfectly good, gently used" kidney...Apply within...)
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To: stevie_d_64

Commies have built a fast-attack submarines back to the 1970s using titanium alloy. Just imagine the cost of these being built in a market, not a command economy.


56 posted on 08/07/2014 8:35:37 AM PDT by wetphoenix
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To: AnAmericanInEngland

So that mean that those black market Beatles records are making comeback LOL!


57 posted on 08/07/2014 8:52:28 AM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Cold Heat

A lot of countries have stopped accepting our GMO grown grains and such. It sits in warehouses and rots or we pay our farmers to not grow anything.


58 posted on 08/07/2014 8:53:23 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: GeronL

“They need to start creating giant state farms or something! That should work. lol”

You mean like Archer-Daniels-Midland, Cargill, or Pilgrim’s Pride do?


59 posted on 08/07/2014 9:16:32 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Q)
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To: bert
"Americans don’t eat chicken legs and thighs"

you kiddin' or trolling ? :)

a unique cayenne pepper seasoned mostly dark meat fried chicken is a Nashville, Tennessee specialty. iow, something that is et in your neck of the woods.

dark chicken meat is actually more nutritious than white & the fat makes it more tasty.

less exported just means more for us folks that eat good.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_chicken

the 1st photo example is a leg quarter.

60 posted on 08/07/2014 9:51:53 AM PDT by Psalm_2 (Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 12:21 NASB)
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