Moldovan authorities intend to discuss with the EU an increase in the duty-free euro quota for plum exports
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Moldova
Published Jan 22, 2022
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The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry (MAIA), together with the Ministry of Economy (ME) of the Republic of Moldova, is preparing a request to the European Commission to increase the preferential quota-2022 for the export of Moldovan plums to the European market up to 20,000 tons. Last year, this quota was 15 thousand tons, in 2020 - 10 thousand tons.
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Earlier, several organizations of agricultural producers addressed the Moldovan government with a proposal to initiate a dialogue with the EU structures on the next increase in export quotas (primarily for plums, but also for other types of fruit crops). The proposal was motivated by the fact that over the past five years, the volume of plum supplies to the European Union has increased significantly. The only exception was 2018, when a little more than 12 thousand tons of plums were supplied to the EU from Moldova (in 2017 - almost 20 thousand tons). However, already in 2019, the European export of Moldovan plums returned to the level of 20 thousand tons, in 2020 it amounted to more than 22 thousand tons. In 2021, according to preliminary data from the Moldovan customs service, about 27 thousand tons of plums were sent to the EU. At the same time, as specialists of local associations of agricultural producers note, about 3-4 thousand tons of this plum came to Romania for ...
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