Chicken ignites Russian American trade war

Introduction: From March 1, Russia announced that it would temporarily suspend the import of chicken products produced in the United States, and asked the United States to provide specific materials about the use of antibiotics, preservatives and other agents used in the production of chicken If the United States could not provide detailed materials by March 10, Russia would "kill" the chicken products of the United States in an all-round way Russia is a big demand country for chicken products, with the annual demand of about 2 million tons However, due to its limited production capacity, most of it depends on imports The United States is the country that exports the most chicken products to Russia In 2001, Russia imported 1 million tons of chicken products from the United States, accounting for about 20% of the United States' exports In recent years, Russian experts believe that the United States has violated the agreement on the quality of chicken products signed by the two countries and exported substandard chicken products to Russia in large quantities Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Russian Ministry of agriculture Sergeyev said: "Russia is not the garbage dump of low-quality food in the world, and Russia will continue to improve the quality of imported products"; while the United States However, they denied that the chicken products exported from the United States meet all kinds of standards, and there will be no quality problems Both sides you come and I go, the two sides are at loggerheads In this case, on February 28, the Russian Ministry of Agriculture announced that if the United States could not provide specific materials for the use of antibiotics, preservatives and other pharmaceutical agents used in the production of chicken by March 1, it would stop importing chicken products from the United States However, the United States seemed to be indifferent to this, so on March 1, Russia stopped according to the regulations It issued an import license for chicken products from the United States and suspended the import of chicken products from the United States on March 10 Since then, U.S businesses have been unable to sit still and are moving around hoping that Russia will lift the ban At the same time, the United States also said it would send an expert group to Moscow, hoping to start negotiations with Russia on this issue But officials from Russia's Ministry of Agriculture said there was "nothing to talk about" with the United States before March 10, waiting for the results of Russian experts' tests on American chicken to come out According to experts' analysis, banning the import of American chicken products is actually a retaliatory measure for Russia's trade with the United States President Bush announced on March 5 that the United States will impose import tariffs of up to 30% on most imported steel products from March 20, and impose import quotas on thick steel plates to limit steel imports As a major exporter of steel products, Russian steel-making enterprises lose us $500-700 million of revenue in the US market every year If Russia "blocks" American chicken products in an all-round way, American chicken producers will also lose nearly US $700 million Once the trade war between the two sides starts, they will lose both sides How to resolve this contradiction has become the most important question for the relevant enterprises of the two countries Question.