Trucks with Ukrainian candies got stuck on border

• 8.04.2013, 13:14

The Belarusian customs service detain trucks carrying Ukrainian candies.

Charter97.org has learnt it from a reader.

“All trucks with candies and chocolate of Ukrainian manufacturers have been standing in the Belarusian customs area since Wednesday, April 3. They are being thoroughly searched. Samples for for expert examination have been taken. The trucks are not allowed to enter the country. Customs officers are looking for smuggled goods,” he wrote.

Konti company that exports its products to Belarus said to charter97.org that they had received unofficial information about customs problems. “We have heard about it, but cannot give official comments,” the sales department says.

Representatives of another big confectionery exporter, Roshen company, declined to confirm or refute the information about the examination of goods on the border.

It should be reminded that Minsk and Kyiv held negotiations last month on revising anti-dumping measures against Ukrainian confectionery manufacturers. Belgospishcheprom company insisted on increasing the cost of imported candies. Possible variants of setting the minimum price level for Ukrainian confectionery products to ban the export cheaper candies to Belarus were discussed.

Belgospishcheprom company was reported a week ago to use administrative leverage to make retailers unload stocks of Kommunarka and Spartak confectionery factories. After factual nationalisation of Belarusian confectionery factories their products are becoming less and less able to stand completion in the domestic market.

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