Posted on 08/12/2014 7:08:14 AM PDT by McGruff
Last week Russia banned imports of fruit, vegetables, meat, poultry, fish, shellfish, scallops, milk and dairy from the United States, the European Union, Australia, Canada and Norway in retaliation for Western sanctions over the crisis in Ukraine.
Since the ban was imposed, Russian media have been flooded with jokes that Moscow will soon see supplies of oysters and shrimps coming from landlocked Belarus, which together with Kazakhstan has a free trade deal with Russia as part of the customs union between the three states.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Net effect:
Belarus gets a handling fee and everything will cost more in Russia.
No, Putin gets a handling fee, and everyone in Russia pays more.
Bella Roose is going to become one rich lady...
Wasn’t she in that Twilight movie?
An opportunity for Belarus to export more of its own products to Russian consumers, and the homo-fascist European ‘brand’ takes another hit.
I don’t know what this means but
Poland is preparing a World Trade Organization (WTO) complaint over Russia’s ban on exports of agricultural goods from the European Union, according to the country’s Agriculture Minister Marek... http://t.co/bqhC8mQpQj
The US should slap sanctions on Belarus and Kazakhstan that mirror the Russian sanctions.
America just lost $1.2B in agri sales to Russia, why not losing even more by digging even deeper hole.
With sanctions to Russia, U.S. is speeding up the process of abandoning of the greenback as the World's reserve currency. Trades between Chicoms and Russia will not be in dollars, Turkey is following up. Euro banks are dumping American business and dollar transactions to escape FATCA hassle.
This does not look good.
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