December 21, 2010

Russia sets poultry import quota at 350,000 tonnes

Russia's Customs Union Commission has approved a tariff-rate quota (TRQ) of 350,000 tonnes for poultry for 2011, the National Chicken Council reported, citing a Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) report from Moscow.

The BNA briefing did not indicate country-specific allocations, NCC said.

NCC quotes the USA Poultry and Egg Export Council's Moscow consultant as reporting that the TRQ includes frozen, deboned chicken meat, frozen bone-in chicken halves or quarters, frozen bone-in legs and parts thereof, and frozen deboned turkey meat.

The quota doesn't provide for whole-carcass poultry and does not have country-specific allocations, contrary to the past several years.