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China Begins Direct Sales Of Fruit & Vegetables To Russia
Despite the ongoing mainstream media meme that Russia is becoming 'isolated' from the rest of the world thanks to Western sanctions, it appears they have found a few new 'old' friends to become un-isolated with. On the heels of Russia's food-import-ban sanctions last week, Russian and Chinese officials have announced an agreement that China will start selling fruit and vegetables directly to Russia via a special logistics center in Russia's far east. Notably, this week saw Russia's GDP beat consensus expectations, Ruble rally, and stocks jump as German confidence plunged - can you say blowback?
China will start selling fruit and vegetables directly to Russia, and Baorong company plans to set up a special logistics center in Dongning on the border with Russia’s Far East to do it.
The 70,000 square meter wholesale market and 30,000 square meter warehouse, fitted out with refrigerators and other equipment, will be in a special cross-border customs zone, ITAR-TASS cites the head of the Association of Applied Economy of the Heilongjiang Province Zhang Chunjiao.
“Direct export of fruit and vegetables to Russia will be organized from it," she said.
It will cost $9.7 million to construct. Customs clearance times will be reduced, and there will be no need to double-check the cargo because of video surveillance in the warehouse.
A Chinese company Dili, also intends to create a similar cross-border trade zone by the end of 2014, Zhang Chunjiao added.
The announcement comes after Russia introduced a 1-year ban on imports of some agricultural products from the EU, US, Australia, Canada, Australia and Norway last week. If it lasts, it could cost European Union members $16 billion, Vygaudas Usackas, the EU ambassador to Russia, estimated.
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We assume payment for these imports will be in Rubles or Renminbi... not US Dollars.
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As we noted last week, there is good reason why Europe is being battered by these new sanctions; but who is hit hardest?
EU member states have already complained their economies would be hit hard, with Germany and Poland losing the most trade with Russia, and the Baltic states – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia – seeing their shares of GDP falling even sharper.
For the US the effect will be very limited, as agricultural exports to Russia are about one tenth of one percent of total US gross domestic product of about $144 billion, according to the US Department of Agriculture.
US food exports to Russia in 2013 amounted to less than 1 percent of the country’s total agricultural exports, the US Department of Agriculture said to RIA Novosti. Conversely, Russian exports to the US and European markets are 13 percent of its GDP. In 2013, the US exported $1.3 billion of food goods to Russia, about a quarter of which were poultry products.
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Furthermore, perhaps in the interests of not embarassing itself, the EU is not asking China to refrain from supportinG Russia:
The European Union has no plans to ask a number of states, in particular China, to refrain from replacing banned European food products in the Russian market, a source close to EU leadership told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
“There are no concrete plans,” the official said, answering a question on whether the EU will ask China and some other countries not to replace banned agricultural and food products from Europe with their own goods in the Russian market.
Media reports earlier suggested that the European Union planned to convince Brazil, Chile and other Latin American states not to export their food products to Russia. It was said that EU expects these countries not to take advantage of the embargo on European products.
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So it seems, US sanctions sparked European blowback... how long before Washington finds itself alone again.
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More un-isolation?
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<<how long before Washington finds itself alone again>>
I've never seen an American president with so few friends. Even Bush had more international allies - and yes, even friends. No wonder Barky spies on everyone. He has no friends that he can trust enough NOT to spy on, I guess. Is it not obvious by now that America is the one being isolated?
Yet another fuck you Barry!
Agreed, and that recently signed currency swap (extension) comes handy.
Fooky U, EU.
-rumored advertising slogan of Chinese Food Export Collective to Russia
I find the doublespeak of the MSM is so obvious. They talk about isolating Russia with sanctions, so that would mean that countries that push sanctions are the isolationists. However, when Ron Paul says to stay out of other countries' affairs and that sanctions are act of war they call Dr. Paul the isolationist. I fucking hate the MSM.
MSM is nothing more than the collective mouthpieces of the USSA/bankster deep state:
"The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media." -- William Colby, former director of the CIA (1973-1976).
Yes, incuding NPR. Lots of distraction going on with those poor people stranded on that mountain...
U.S. interests you say? We can perform a humanitarian mission in Iraq, but Russia cannot do the same in their own back yard?
Please, explain...
but Russia cannot do the same in their own back yard?
Might it have something to do with Russians being European Caucasians?
You mean albinos?
Hate MSM? The question is, how do you even know to hate MSM? I have no idea whether I hate MSM or not; shit, I may even like FOX news; I'll never know...
... cause I never turn the shit on... hello??? I mean with cable and all... what you guys got, rabbit ear antennas sitting atop your RCA consoles?
Who the heck keeps watching things they hate? If it ain't on ZH, RT, or PressTV, I'm gonna miss it. Hope when I win the lottery they post it on one of those sites or I'm e-fckt.
YES! Two countries that cannot feed themselves... will feed each other. LOL. This cannot be made up. :) Thank you ZH for bringing this to our attention.
It has everything to do with being caucasian!
WWII started because Hitler tried to reclaim lands inhabited by German speaking kinsmen and had no further ambitions. But the right of cosmopolitan internationalists to cobble together multicultural "nations" comprised of populations that cannot speak to each other (but can be useful to pit against each other to defeat the interests and demands of the larger ethnic majority at election time) will be defended by war.
Divided as it is between Ukrainians and Russians, "democracy" in Ukraine makes it a fertile field for oligarch plunder, as was Poland at the outset of WWII with East Prussia an easily manipulated counterweight to Polish workers and peasants who might otherwise have their way in elections.
That fact that Russia wants to be a mono-ethnic country is a profound threat to oligarch political control everywhere, and strongly suggests that Putin actually cares about his own people, or at least cares about using them to curb oligarch political power and predation.
Well, isn't it a bit larger than that? The US is likely to now invade Iraq for the third time, and replace it's regime for the second time, to push back fruitloops it armed and sponsored, all while uttering with uttermost sanctimonious hypocrisy, what an awful criminal thing it would be if Russia intervened in a conflict on its' own doorstep (steppe?).
Please tell my why rational people can't see this?
LoP, as this ban affects the US also, I'm guessing that your customers over there are buying from you via Brasil or China? ;-)
Can you say Barry Hussein Obama is a Fuckup? Sure you can!!!
All monsters that think they can control an entire country and its population are fuckups.
They can have Merica's favorite vegetable---Uncle Joe Biden
Deleted, just saw Buzzsaw99's comment below.
Do you realize the potential this has on the price of Garlic!!
oh well...the California Garlic industry will have to fire up their plants again. oh.....wait, they don't have any water!!!
CRAP!!!
MOTHERF*&#ER!!! SINCE WHEN IS IT FAIR FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD TO PRETEND THAT THEIR PRINTED FIAT HAS AS MUCH IMAGINARY VALUE AS THE DOLLAR??!!!
Now that China is exporting fruits and vegetables to Russia how will China pay for U.S. fruits and vegetables to replace them? With dollars?
Doubt it. A barter deal on steel pipes for the forthcoming gas pipeline?
Headbanger: Obama's favorite chinese dish: Cream of SomYongGuy.
La La La La OBomba....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nx96bjqSlg
"Obama's favorite chinese dish: Cream of SomYongGuy."
Cream of Sum Yum Gai from the Cum of Reggie directly in Barry's mouth and ears!!!
The entire world is obviously racist.
No, only Caucasians are officially racists. Well, 2% of them aren't racist either and are totally exempt.
Everyone else, who is not White or Preferred, is merely expressing ethnic or racial Pride. Drink your Kool Aid and be quiet. /s
So this is a black/white thing? Lesee... China sells fruits to Russia... some ape start on again about racism and the unfairly accused caucasians.
Got it.
+1 for "Barky". Best so far!
Balderdash.
The world is on a learning curve concerning the US and its behavior. Bush was just earlier on the curve.
There is no substantial difference between POS Bush and POS Obama.
Obama is not an American. He is owned by Deep State, AIPAC and the elite dual citizens.
You confuse friends with blackmail & interests.
i have one standing rule: never knowingly eat anything that comes from china
Right with you buzz, not sure this is a positive for Russia.
pods
I'm not sure I agree... eaten some great chinese during trips to Shanghai, LOL.
There are good levels of food inspection and safety but even the US has plenty of problems.
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/sections/foodborne-illness-outbreaks/
China has four times our population which would mean about four times the food problems.
The USA is a joke with open borders, ebola, GMO, crap fake food, pink slime, corn syrup and the list goes on.
You USA firsters-Obama lovers sicken me.
Buzzsaw remember they even fed their own children adulterated formula. yep never eat any thing from China. The ruskys will regret this very soon.
<< never eat anything that comes from China......or the Fuki Pacific or California or the Gulf ....or any of our fresh water streams.....>>
Sadly, many of our own resources are also polluted and who knows WTF will happen when that mass of heavy Fuki water hits Cali beaches as shown by that MIT computer model. China is probably the dirtitest shirt but the problem is global.
" You USA firsters-Obama lovers sicken me. "
There's a Big Pharma vaccine for that.
Yep . . . In my younger days I had a Chinese girlfriend (she was an American citizen though)
absolutely no complaints.
As an aside - I've had some fantastic Chinese Food in mainland China and in Hong Kong
Maybe the fruit & veggies will be from export sources
"Yep . . . In my younger days I had a Chinese girlfriend (she was an American citizen though)"
When you asked her for 69, did she bring you brocolli beef?
Now thats funny I don't care who you are !!!
Set off metal detectors on your return trip?
The thing about eating Chinese snatch is you want more in 2 hours.
"I'm not sure I agree... eaten some great chinese during trips to Shanghai, LOL."
Are you talking about food?
cut off your arm to sever the head of your enemy
jb
You two have obviously never tried the aged, pulled from the River Pork !!!
Have you? How does it taste?
Like Chicken, you silly !!!
I agree...and Russia is so worried about out GM wheat and corn..and McDonalds cheese...just wait until they test Chinas food products.....
Yep! Ima stickin to my good ol USA GMO food and pink slime entres, like a good 'Murcan should! Good shit I tells ya.
It's probably a good idea to extend that practice to any processed "food" made in America.
I'm disturbed by your lack of patriotism. What's a little tumor in the fight for freedom?
true dat. or feed it to your dog.
Feed it to your dog? Remember the melamine tainted pet food a few years ago? Killed thousands of them.
Funny you say that. Few years ago went to Big 5 and bought some leather work boots that were made in China. Within 2 weeks I had some god awful fungus on my ankles and top of my feet. Got rid of 'em ASAP.
That is because some dude here in USA tried them on before you and he had nasty fungus lol
+ 10 cosmos. lmao
They wash it all in the holy water or the ganges first, so whats your problem ?
Chinese apples highest pesticides on the planet, DON'T TOUCH ANY OF THEIR SHIT
Espec farmed fish !
How about them Farmed Shrimp, from China or... Vietnam? More potent than BP-shrimp from the Gulf, I hear.
Yes, 90% of our sea food are imported from places like China, Vietnam, Mexico, etc. You think Vietnam is safer than China? At least China gets better export control. There are so many big mouths here.
"There are so many big mouths here.""There are so many big mouths here.""There are so many big mouths here.""There are so many big mouths here."
A little hard to do since a lot of the inputs to the food are from China such as fertilizer, pesticides, plastic wraps, packaging, etc. Also American fruits are well known with high level of additives such as genetic engineering, steroids, fertilizer, pesticides, …. BTW, China’s life expectancy of 75.2 is not much below US, especially considering it is a third world country which should have a much lower life expectancy such as India’s at 66.
India is nasty.
Hmm... Based on ZH poll, China is the nastiest. Nobody ever complained about India. I must assume it is good. I have been planning to visit there but got postponed again and again.
If you are concerned about the pollutant content I can understand it, otherwise....
Anyway do you ever wondered, what is the pesticide residue and herbicide residue content of the American GMO food?
I work as a chef and I feed thousands of people each week. (institutinal, and in the US). Almost every frozen or canned vegetable or fruit now comes from China.
When did the U.S. stop growing fruit and vegetables? I guess when the food purveyors figured out that it was cheaper to buy food grown in human shit and processed by people making $1.00 per hour.
PS: ALL of the chain restaurants in the U.S.use this crap too.
mobtown - thanks for the info.
This re-enforces our decision to have a place out in the country where we have enough room to grow & raise our own food.
Our neighbors are friendly, well spaced from each other, have practical skills, and are well armed.
When real estate developers started plowing under some of the best all-season production areas in the country in California and Arizona. You would not believe the amount of productive land now under massive sprawl to line the pockets of DR Horton, Pulte and their paid off politicians.
Look at fresh produce -- what used to be US grown now comes from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Brazil, etc. Everyone's worried about energy independence but food independence should rank at least as high. Yes, we have plenty of grains but fresh fruit and veggies -- we no longer produce enough of our own and CANNOT -- the farmland cannot be retrieved.
no one reads the tiny fine print on their corporate fud-labels any more. . .
from 2013:
also 2013:
dated 22 July 2014:
lol "sovereign nations". . .
you is wong dere fella we grows der best gmo corn syrup here in der world betta dan anyones corn hole syrups
and anyway, ain't it fun when a food deficit country goes to another one for "salvation"?
it's the same as with EZ, US and Japan "saving" each other in the financial world. Only that one can live pretty well without the toilet paper; without food...
Look at it this way - there are no sanctions against China. Given it's all a global market, China just buys more fruit and veggies with the cash they get from Russia. In one door, out the other.
yes, and you move them to China, which moves them to Russia. China which will also add something to the price; and which is only 10k km. away from the relevant areas of Russia.
efficiency at it's best. But we ship and sell bottled water while we complain we're running out of oil, so what can you expect...
Is it safe to eat pussy from china?? heard it tastes like chicken. will it give me yellow fever?
Mmm, appetizers: Shrimp-toast, pot stickers, spring rolls, and scallion pancakes;
Hot and sour soup,
Entrees: Egg foo-young, Mu-shu shrimp, twice-cooked pork, General Tso's chicken, lo-mein noodles.
Dessert: Li-chi nuts and almond cookies!
I won't eat food sent to the US from China, anywhere else in the world, no worries.
Full 'faith' and EZ credit on the Federal reserve note....not so much according to some countries!
FOOD FIGHT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbHDtCTYHjE
Do you have ANY idea how untrustworthy the food is that's raised and/or processed in China? I spend a lot of time in China and the Chinese don't trust their food at all. Now the Russians are going to join in and eat that shit? Yea, that's really moving forward in a positive way.
Seen those farm-raised fish with caged chickens above feeding them their chickenshit- how novel!
Chinese do not trust anything including their government. Americans seem to trust anything the government says.
Nothing healthier than Polish apples and Romanian wine. In fact after communism, they say large areas of Romania are covered in lead dust due to poor smelting methods.
And of course those Polish apples are immune to Chernobyl radiation.
I'm still half-expecting the EU to retaliate by banning gas-imports from Russia. Before anyone chimes in to say nobody could make such a stupid decision - bear in mind that politicos are involved in these decisions.
china apples are full of lead and plastics.
my dear amerigun fiends please join me in supporting polsh freedom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4dlXh0IfA0
You think Polish apple is free from crap? Actually Russian standards for food are even more strict than those in EU... the problem is with the black market stuff that makes its way to the markets etc. The problem is with the the lack of control and enforcement and corruption not the standards.
DUMB ARGUMENT then, get it?
Russian standards: strict on paper, enforcing none.
Polish apples are grown right next to Chernobyl.
They don't even eat wild mushrooms or wild pigs in Germany because of Chernobyl. They are highly radioactive. My mother in law died of cancer in Germany. I would be surprised if Chernobyl had something to do with it.
Geography not your strong suit, eh?
Belarus is next to Chernobyl, not Poland.
Tony is 100% correct. There are two-tiers of food supply in China. One for the government elite which comes from their own private organic gardens. The other is for the donkeys. Toxic, Monsatan garbage but at full-Western prices.
Yes, boycott them so we can return to our primitive life.
And we haven't even started talking about Fukushima yet.
You should see some of the setups. Private compounds with miltary guards.
Chile seedless red grapes highest pesticide there is
If that is true, how safe are Chilean wines?
Chilean wines is fine, great value for money. I think with wine the situation is much better since obviously they use different variety for export wine production and grapes are picked and processed on-site. The biggest problem with exporting fruit is how to preserve it... and when you have to ship it half way across the world it's even a bigger problem...
if brazil and chile dont agree they will sanction them- the stupidity is an endless loop
The stupid fucks were even prepared to subsidize the fruit industries in all those countries for not exporting fruit to Russia. In the meantime they are also subsidizing the whole fruit foodchain in Europa.
For every problem there is a subsidy.
Viva fiat!
i would like the Sum Ting Wong Please......
Largest country in the world + most populated country in the world.
'We've got 'em surrounded'
*slow clap*
Frigging A, Giraffe.
Reminds me of Custer before the little Big Horn when he said we have got them where we want them now men.
Trade is the only thing that matters, period.
I wonder how much of that fruit is coming from California?
That beed dried fruit comin from Kaliforny...
Perhaps, but STILL kewl...
It's amazing how terrible US and EU leaders are. Ask other countries to stop selling food to Russia?? I know exactly what they will say: we'll sell to the highest bidder. The only way to stop Russia from getting food is for the US and EU to buy all of that food.
After the Opium-war we will now have the Fruit-and-Vegetables-Wars! Great! More points to humankind and world leaders.
It's only proper democracy if the tyranny is obeyed to the letter. Do as we say, not as we do.
Most of the fruit now comes from South America. Costco sells plenty of fruit from Chile and Peru. Russia has an agreement with them. The BRICS can crowd out the US and Europe.
I would laugh so hard if China started importing all that yummy-European food and re-exporting it again to Russia. Now THAT would be a big FUCK YOU US/EU!
Many Russians (especially middle/upper class) got used to buy German Müller or Dr. Oetker products and could get them via China. Russia would officially still sanction the EU and still get their stuff.
A friend of mine worked at Mercedes HQ in Germany and they used to sell trucks to Turkey and from there they ended up in Gaddafi's car park. Mystery....nobody knows how he got his hands on shiny new Benzes.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....this has become such a clusterfuck, there isn't even enough Popcorn and Sofa time to really enjoy it.
"I would laugh so hard if China started importing all that yummy-European food and re-exporting it again to Russia. Now THAT would be a big FUCK YOU US/EU! "
Even better: EU food exporters to China can be told to deliver their produce directly to the Chinese side of the new Russian-Chinese agricultural trading centre being built which will straddle their two borders. That way, EU exporters are not breaking sanctions introduced for no reason by their insane governments and Russia gets the produce it wants immediately.
What then Mr Slimeball-In-Chief Barreloso?? Do you begin applying sanctions to China? Good luck with that.
Yeah... great Obummel!!
85 THOUSAND PEOPLE!!!!!!
EIGHTY FIVEEEE THOUSSSAAND PEOPLE!!!!!!!
JUST LOST THEIR JOB BECAUSE OF YOU YOU DUMBFUCK!!!!!!
Obama the job creator no - destroyer !
Operation "Choke Point" in the US is a job killer too. DoJ using the banks to kill business it doesn't like. Spiteful bastards and yet, mostly, silence from MSM.
Next up: job summit
We have Chinese fruits and vegetables here in N. America. They are labeled organic, non GMO.
Independent labs test them and the levels of lead, aluminum, cadmium, are through the roof.
Pick your poison... One for me, one for the environment...
I've purchased oranges from Kroger which were sourced from South Africa.
Before you say anything about China... Once, I bought GMO-free Omega 3 capsules in America. The product, once again, was guaranteed not to contain any GMO. I checked, and it turned out the envelope of the capsule was entirely made of GMO corn gelatin. What they meant, presumably, was that the oil itself was GM free. They omitted the rest...
It went straight to the dustbin.
Then, I ordered an American herbal tea, guaranteed 100% malva verticellata (a lose-weight plant of sorts). Upon receiving the box, I read on it 90% malva verticellata, 10% senae (some old cheap laxative). Tests were conducted on the herbal tea, which, in reality, contained 2% malva verticellata, 98% cheap filler senae. Big scam!
So if I were you, I wouldn't trust anything American-grown at all, unless you grow it yourself (or are prepared to sue the firm for defrauding its customers. Or have everything you mean to eat tested). Mislabelling and lying to the consumers seem to be a very real American problem.
Not concerned. We buy only local (mostly) organic, or Organic from South Am.
Who cares about poison? Shareholders value is up. So?
Please post the links to the independent labs tests you are talking about.
If I want pine nuts, I have to send to Nevada to get them. Even the health food stores buy China sourced.
The heavy metals come from the human $h!t they use as fertilizer.
While Obama is golfing, Putin is working.
China is known for contaminated food.
At least China doesn't join the other countries in sanctioning Russia because of Ukraine, a contaminated game plan.
I suspect that American food is the most contaminated food in the world.
You can travel to a foreign country and compare a local chicken to an American. The American is twice as big and cheaper. But the local tastes much better, and you loose weight eating it.
Bullish.
For a hegemonic country, as its NATO shanghied subservient Euro continent, that have been jointly shoving down other people's throats--via joint control of IMF-- the petrodollar exorbitant privilege, using the multilateral surrogate WTO mecanism and transcontinental intra-bloc bilateral deals, to further ramrod Oligarchy rule on the desperate and damned populations of third world, it is ironic to see these uber economies (all fiat pumped on toxic debt) now bitching about the OTHER world getting its act together to extricate itself from the petrodollar and US Oligarchy embargo stranglehold.
The world moves dangerously down the ladder into the snake pit of race to bottom. All the while the defenders of civilization act like they be on the financial Titanic. On its maiden voyage of "new world of derivative financed Jack's beanstalk to infinity" order; before it hits the inflation iceberg.
Some scenario. Where is Alice in WOnderland?
If you are going to fight an economic war you better know what you are doing.
Soon Russia will find it self completley dependent from China (energy (only client), food, tehnology, etc.)
China response - Why not?!
And then there is India.
Joint 5 gen fighter program
Gas
Etc
Etc
They are only being isolated if you have a US centric view of the world.
I don't think they are isolated but they are being more dependent on China by each day. Is it good or bad for Russia - it's for them to decide.
You mean the way Europe is completely dependant on the US?
American response: "Ka-ching!"
Poor Russians - who the f*ck would eat anything from China? The Chinese have proven that they poison their own food just to make more money.
lol, oh my, have you checked your super-market labels lately?
or where the corporates are sourcing their ingredients? that's a bit harder to check on,
since they aren't required to disclose.
amrkn fud is pure crap.
notice NO GRAVEYARDS in china......... yum yum
Need lots of fertilizer to grow enough food to feed that massive population... and Soylent Yellow.
After the Chinese came, the Americans and Europeans in this country do nothing. The Chinese come forever and they do not tolerate competition. With love from Russia, food from West for Russia market is goodbye forever.
Seems like the Russian military budget increases are right on time to fend off any direct annexation by the Chinese. Russia becoming a vassal state of China, who would've thought. Good luck Mr. Bear, may Mr. Dragon treat you well.
It is stupid to push a pair of traditional rivals into a coalition. Why not let them fight to benefit us? US government has done the impossible. Congratulations!
If the central planner PPTers keep intervening in the "markets" and the S&P stays lofty does it count?? You bet it does... Even before all this the state of the economy is near the worst it has ever been...this is gonna cripple Europe also ...the undertones of unrest are growing and these bureaucrats really just are so blue pilled up they are doing nothing but exacerbate for the peons (us) how horrific this collapse is gonna be...
And that is without WW3 and Ebola on the table..
They are murdering the Dollar as the reserve currency out of sheer hubris.
...And on the other side of the globe:
European Union is planning to dissuade Latin American countries, especially Brazil and Chile, from exporting their agricultural products to Russia. (Google English translation from Russian)