BRUSSELS, August 7 (RIA Novosti) – The World Trade Organization has not received any complaints from the Western countries targeted by Russia’s food products import ban, a WTO official said Thursday.
"We have not received any information either from the Russian Federation or the countries that news reports say could be affected," the official said.
The source did not comment on prospects of possible complaints: "The WTO cannot comment on this."
On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin singed an order on economic measures to protect the country's security. The decree banned for a year imports of agricultural and food products from countries that have imposed sanctions on Russia.
The complete “blacklist” of food imports from Australia, Canada, the European Union, the United States and Norway was announced Thursday. The list includes meat, poultry, fish, seafood, milk, dairy products, as well as fruits and vegetables. The embargo does not include infant foods and products.
The European Union, the United States and some other countries have compiled sanctions lists against Russian companies, banks, politicians, as well as the financial, energy and defense sectors of the Russian economy. The move has been linked to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
Moscow has repeatedly called the measures counterproductive and stressed that Russia was never involved in the Ukrainian conflict.
