Source:  Tom Johnston, MEATINGPLACE.COM, 12/20/10

Russia’s Customs Union Commission has approved a tariff-rate quota (TRQ) of 350,000 metric tons for poultry for 2011, the National Chicken Council reported, citing a Bureau of National Affairs report from Moscow.

The BNA briefing did not indicate country-specific allocations, NCC said.

Belarus and Kazakhstan set their poultry TRQs at 15,000 and 110,000 tons, respectively.

Russia’s pork TRQ is 472,000 metric tons. Belarus and Kazakhstan set their pork TRQs at 60,000 and 7,400 tons, respectively.

Russia’s beef TRQ is 530,000 metric tons. Belarus and Kazakhstan set theirs at 5,000 and 10,000 tons, respectively.

NCC quotes the USA Poultry and Egg Export Council’s Moscow consultant as reporting that the TRQ includes frozen, deboned chicken meat, frozen bone-in chicken halves or quarters, frozen bone-in legs and parts thereof, and frozen deboned turkey meat.

The quota doesn’t provide for whole-carcass poultry and does not have country-specific allocations, contrary to the past several years.

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