(MENAFN- QNA) China is mulling lifting the ban on food imports from Russia, a senior official said Sunday.
Russia's Trade Representative in China Alexei Gruzdev told Tass news agency, 'Experts from both countries have had active consultations on market access.'
The official said the limitations for supplies from Russia to China of grain, meet, diary and some other products 'are of technical character,' and to have them lifted requires only certain formalities.'
China banned import of grain from Russia and some other countries as its authorities found smut in supplied grain. China needs grain for livestock feeding. The country has been buying grain from Canada and the US - about two million tonnes a year.
Supplies of livestock products from Russia were stopped several years ago. Russia stopped importing Chinese dairy products from 2008 following the 'melamine scandal'.
'We hope for a wider niche of the Russian food in the Chinese market,' the trade representative said, adding Russian meet, cereals, honey fish and dairy products have good reputation in China.
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