Poland: As of today, there are no grounds to block the import of fruit

Apple concentrate and fresh and frozen fruit. As for these (and other) products, Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski stated that "there are no grounds for today" to limit or prohibit their import from Ukraine to the European Union. The EU Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, during Monday's meeting of the parliamentary agriculture committee, stated that "for today I have no grounds" to ban imports from Ukraine of goods other than the four basic ones, i.e. wheat, corn, rapeseed and sunflower. Raspberry producers will certainly not agree with the words of the politician. As we perfectly remember, the import of frozen raspberries had a key impact on the domestic market. It was also the main reason for the rapid fall in purchase prices. In the case of apple concentrate, we are talking about (percentage) much smaller volumes compared to domestic production. Thus, the impact of duty-free imports on the market was not as significant as in the case of raspberries. Let us ...