The wrong ones were punished

The embargo on Moldavian wines will hit the Russian business of the Blockade of wine import from Moldova under the pretext of finding dangerous pesticides in it (the newspaper reported this yesterday) will come out sideways to Russian business: a quarter of the wine industry belongs to domestic capital, not counting our domestic manufacturers, half of which use Moldovan wine materials.

And although the embargo on Moldavian import was not entered, the statement of the head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko about the need to take measures to restrict the import into the country of Moldavian wine is already acting. “The unilateral decision of Mr. Onishchenko not only contradicts the international and intergovernmental agreements acting between the two countries, but also casts doubt on the certificates of conformity issued by the Russian body of standardization and certification of Rostest in Moldova,” said representatives of Moldova -Win.

The fact that the decision to restrict the import of wine from Moldova is political is evidenced by the very formulation of claims. According to manufacturers, it is impossible to find pesticides in wine. “All our quality experts in bewilderment. This is a nonsense: to look for pesticides in wine - a product of fermentation, where they simply cannot be, ”” said Andrei Egorov, head of the press service of the wine world. In addition, as experts indicate, it takes 1-2 months to test the quality of wine, and the cost of such an examination is about $ 20 thousand. Meanwhile, the Office of Onishchenko managed to hold all the tests in less than a week.

“Why did not name -and -offers named,” the chairman of the Union of manufacturers and exporters of Moldavian wines George Kozub was indignant. - This can only mean one thing: the decision to block our products is political in nature. Moreover, this is a “roll” not only for the Moldavian industry, but also on Russian business. ”

According to analysts, if the situation does not change in the near future, the loss of domestic winemakers will be at least 75%. “Half of Russian factories will stop production, as they use Moldovan wine materials,” says Andrei Egorov. “This will inevitably strengthen the positions of manufacturers of counterfeit products, and will also increase the consumption of vodka, which does not lead to anything good, as practice shows.”

Nevertheless, there are rumors among the winemakers that in Russian government agencies a special plan for the official ban on the import of Moldavian wine and the removal of products received by products have already been developed. “It is obvious that the Russian government completely failed the implementation of the new law on the circulation of ethyl alcohol,” George Kozub builds versions. “Now, in order not to lose face to the world public, they will be driven into a corner.”

Representatives of Russian business, however, are not very worried about political games. “Yes, in Moldova there are very serious interests of Russian business,” says Andrei Egorov. “But we are not politicians, but businessmen, and we cannot talk about the political component.”

03/28/2006 / Kira Remneva, the material was published in the "newspaper" No. 53 dated 03/29/2006.