Ecuador: The export sector must look for new markets in the face of problems with Russia

The problems of Ecuadorian exports to Russia continue to generate reactions. The Minister of Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries, Sonsoles García, assured that "technical obstacles to trade are often used in a certain way by sanitary and phytosanitary agencies," when referring to the request to withdraw the licenses of five banana companies to export to that country. (We invite you to also read: Russia and Ecuador: here the chronology of an unusual diplomatic tension) Between February 2 and 3, 2024, Rosselkhoznadzor, the phytosanitary entity of that country, warned of the presence of a fly infestation in bananas from five Ecuadorian companies and a plague in carnations entering from the European Union. In the case of the humpback fly, which would have been present in bananas, Russia mentioned that it transmits cholera, which is not accurate, according to Minister García because Ecuador has been free of that bacteria since 2014. To talk about commercial retaliation, ...