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Moldova's apple exports to Belarus in August twenty four times as high as a year before
Moldova has sharply raised its apple exports to Belarus after introduction of the ban on imports in Russia, according to the foreign statistics.
The export volumes of Moldovan apples to Belarus in August 2014 were 24 times as high as in the same month of the previous year, while exports of plums rose 6 times.
Fruit-Inform analysts believe that the largest part of those volumes was then re-exported to Russia as fruits of Belarusian origin. It was re-exports that had helped stop a rapid increase in prices registered in Russia in the first week after the ban. This information is also confirmed by almost all large wholesale companies and supermarket chains in the Russian Federation.
We would remind you that Russia was the main export market for Moldovan apples and plums in 2013 with the share of about 90% in Moldova's total exports of those fruits. Meanwhile, Belarus accounted for 7% and 9%, respectively.