Ministry of agriculture has received official information from Turkey, confirming the introduction of duties on Russian agricultural products. About it write "news".

As it became known edition March 15 the Turkish government established a duty on the Russian wheat and corn in the amount of 130%. The duty on rice is 45%, sunflower meal - 13,5%, for pulses of 9.7%. On the Russian sunflower oil introduced a fee of 36%, but there is also another condition: the customs value should not be below $ 1,500 per ton. As reported in the Ministry of agriculture, at the current price of $ 800 per ton to supply sunflower oil to Turkey makes no sense.

The Russian agricultural Ministry said about the need to increase grain exports in the Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Africa, as well as to look for new promising markets.

Earlier it was reported that Turkey has stopped issuing licenses for duty-free supplies of Russian grain and sunflower meal, however, was known only on the duty on wheat at the rate of 130%.

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