Coldiretti: the embargo to Russia is a disaster – Avvenire.it

On Red Square food restaurants
 nostrana with reduced menu for lack of ingredients, shops
 unprotected clothing of fine Italian fashion clothing,
 Auto file in the Moscow traffic without new arrivals from
 Maranello as well as from Arese and Pomigliano.

Two years
 the beginning of the Russian embargo exports of Made in Italy
 They fell to a minimum of at least a decade with loss
 estimated in the period of 7.5 billion compared to the values
 preceding the embargo, said one study of Coldiretti .

 to pay dearly account the closure of borders to a
 List of products, fruits and vegetables, cheese, meat and sausages,
 but also fish, coming from the EU, US, Canada, Norway and
 Australia, are the same as Russian consumers: the Food prices
 in Russia increased by 31.6% in two years – says the
 Russian Ministry of Economic Development – because the stop
 Moscow decided to imports of food products from
 Western countries that have imposed sanctions for the crisis
 Ukraine.

 
  ‘L’ agribusiness – Coldiretti – is the only
 sector to be hit directly total embargo
 sanctioned by Russia but to ban access to these products
 were joined by trade tensions that have hampered the
 made exports throughout the agri-food and even in
 other sectors, from fashion to cars, where it was
 traditionally strong Italian presence. “
” Only in the field
 textile , clothing accessories and loss due skins
 to export coves was – Coldiretti – the
 2 billion in the biennium and for transport the cutting means
 was $ 1.2 billion in the same period while 600
 million has lost a total of agribusiness “.

“It is a unbearable cost – says the president of
 Coldiretti Roberto Moncalvo – for Italy and the European Union
 which they plummeted prices of the products that were
 traditionally exported to Russia without provoking a crisis
 earlier in sensitive areas such as that of
 milk. A halt to imports of fruit, vegetables, meats and
 cheeses from Italy has also resulted in Russia a real
  boom in local production of products made in Italy
 fake , from salami Italian mozzarella “Italian House”
 dall’insalata “Good Italian” to Robiola Unagrande, but also the
 mortadella Milan or Parmesan all rigorously made
 in Russia. “

” In fact – Coldiretti points out – losses
 direct incurred by the failed Italian exports to Russia
 add indirect due to the image damage and
 Market caused by the spread in the Russian market of products
 of imitation. The risk also affects the Restaurants
 Italian in Russia that after a sudden explosion risks
 be hampered by the lack of the main ingredients. In
 Some dishes have disappeared from the menus while in others
 were replaced by local or foreign tarot without there
 both in the vast majority of a clear restaurants
 indication in the menus “.