European vegetables will be bulldozed in Kaliningrad, Russia

Published 2024년 4월 26일

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A truck carrying 58 boxes of tomatoes from the Netherlands and 60 boxes of pepper from Spain was seized at the Russian-Lithuanian border for violating a 2014 Russian sanction that prohibits the import of certain vegetables, fruits, and berries from Western countries. The seized produce, along with 4,500 kg of similar items from the European Union previously confiscated, is set to be disposed of by the Kaliningrad regional customs office. However, imported produce from countries such as Egypt, Brazil, Turkey, Serbia, North Macedonia, and South Africa are still allowed in Russia.
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They tried to bring vegetables from the countries of this union to the Kaliningrad region of Russia, which is surrounded by the countries of the European Union, which is prohibited here. On the Russian-Lithuanian border, 58 boxes of tomatoes from the Netherlands and 60 boxes of pepper from Spain were found in a truck. And according to the documents, the goods arrived from the state of the Eurasian Economic Union in transit through the Moscow region. This is reported by "Russian West". 553 kg of prohibited vegetables were seized. "The Kaliningrad regional customs office intends to take the vegetables to the landfill and crush them with a bulldozer. 4,500 kg of berries, vegetables and fruits also from the European Union, which were seized a few days earlier, await this terrible fate," the publication clarifies. They note that imported vegetables and fruits from Egypt, ...
Source: Agrotimes

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