WASHINGTON — Russian diners won’t be able to find creamy Dutch cheeses or juicy Polish apples in the grocery store or cook up chicken from the United States. That’s all the result of a Russian ban on most food imports from the West.
Although the U.S., Canada and the European Union together will take more than a $17.5 billion hit, Russian consumers may feel the ban more than Western farmers.
Jason Furman is the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He shrugged off the import ban’s impact on the West as negligible. In contrast, he said, Western …read more
Source: The Philippine Daily Inquirer
