According to a marketing research “Apple market in Ukraine”, conducted by Alliance Capital Management, the biggest volumes of apples imported from Ukraine – 62% – were shipped to Belarus in the first half of 2016.
Georgia takes the second place – 11% of Ukrainian apple exports. It is followed by Moldova – 10% and Kazakhstan – 9%.
Belarus also imported the cheapest Ukrainian apples in the first half of 2016.
At the same time, Belarus successfully exports apples. In 2014, export of apples to Russia from Belarus increased by 104% up to 175 thousand tons, at the end of 2015 it increased already by 134% and reached 411 thousand tons.
According to Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor), the export of apples from Belarus has increased by five times after Moscow has introduced counter-sanctions. At the same time, the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation believes that this is a re-export of Polish apples, which are prohibited for import into Russia.