Russia has imposed a 10-day quarantine for vegetables imported from Azerbaijan through Dagestan, the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan said.
The return of products sent by farmers and entrepreneurs to Russia has increased, especially that concerns tomatoes. At the same time, a formal reason for that is wrong documentation of such export by Azerbaijani shippers.
"In 2016, the tomato export to Russia is carried out by the same persons as in 2015, when there were no problems. The SCC is working intensively with the relevant Russian organizations," abc.az cited the committee as saying.
The fundamental difference of the situation of 2016 from the 2015 one is that this year Russia has completely banned the import of tomatoes from Turkey and has repeatedly accused the Azerbaijani side of the re-export of Turkish tomatoes. Russia argues its position with microbiological data, and possibly it is right in relation to greenhouse tomatoes.
Back in 2015 Russia notified Azerbaijan that it wants to buy precisely Baku tomatoes and not the Azerbaijani analogue of Turkish vegetables. Probably the problem has not been solved so far.
