Russia can ban imports of Belarusian cheese

• 15.06.2011, 10:31

The Russian national union of milk manufacturers has offered to limit imports of cheese from Belarus to Ukraine.

Concerns about dumping by Belarusian cheese manufacturers have been expressed at consultations presided by agriculture minister of Russia Elena Skrynnik, dedicated to the situation at milk market of Russia in the season of “big milk”.

Russia has completely blocked deliveries of whole milk and milk whey from Belarus, rationalizing that as a support of national manufacturers in the “big milk” season. Now deliveries of cheese, which prices are dumping the Russian market, are under question. “If Belarus is delivering cheese at the prices which are lower than the ones on which we have agreed upon, we would make arrangements for them not to create dumping,” Agriculture Minister Elena Skrynnik reacted, “Kommersant” reports.