According to the RF Federal Customs Service’s statistics, in January-August 2019, meat and dairy import into Russia increased. During this period, 260.7 thousand tons of fresh and frozen meat was imported, up 1.3 year-on-year.
Fresh and frozen poultry import increased by 8.6% up to 147.1 thousand tons. Fish import remained on the previous year’s level making 244.6 thousand tons.
Canned meat and meat specialties import declined by 7.6% down to 11 thousand tons.
Milk and condensed cream import was up 27.8% to 118.3 thousand tons. Cheese and cottage cheese import dropped by 32.8% down to 174.2 thousand tons. Butter import surged by 40.9% amounting to 77.8 thousand tons.
Vegetable oil import dropped by 88.4% down to 2.1 thousand tons. Palm oil import was up 2.7% to 669.5 thousand tons.
Apple import declined by 12.1% down to 696.1 thousand tons, and banana import by 3.6% down to slightly over 1 mn tons. Citrus fruit import was up 7.7% to 953.9 thousand tons.
Raw sugar import increased by 16.2% up to 4.3 thousand tons, white sugar import grew by 3% up to 182.3 thousand tons.
In August the following categories demonstrated a year-on-year and month-on-month decline in import volumes: bananas (-1% year-on-year and -1.7% month-on-month), apples (-26.1% year-on-year and и -2% month-on-month), citrus fruit (-1.1% year-on-year and -20.3% month-on-month), fresh and frozen meat (-15,8% year-on-year and -7,7% month-on-month), cheese and cottage cheese (-83.4% year-on-year and -2.9% month-on-month), poultry (-1.8% year-on-year and -9.4% month-on-month), canned meat and meat specialties (-29.4% year-on-year and -14.3% month-on-month).
Other categories demonstrated positive growth.
Coffee import in January-August grew by 14.8% up to 146.7 thousand tons, while tea import declined by 14.1% down to 98.6 thousand tons.
In August, coffee import surged by 56.9% year-on-year and by 13.8% month-on-month up to 21.5 thousand tons. Tea import was down 23% year-on-year and 4.9% month-on-month to 11.7 thousand tons.