The largest manufacturers of cigarettes in Russia can stop the production of products due to lack of raw materials after the ban on Rosselkhoznadzor to import tobacco from India, South Africa, Brazil, Tanzania and Malawi. This warns “Kommersant.”
Executive Director of the Tobacco Industry Council, Eduard Vorontsov, wrote a letter to the name of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishoustina. The document speaks of a possible threat to the stop of the tobacco industry of Russia due to restrictions on the import of raw materials from a number of countries.
In the letter of the Voronez, it indicates that Rosselkhoznadzor introduced temporary restrictions in connection with the detection of a multi-digretic humpback flies. However, this pest is nonspecific for tobacco, and mainly spreads through fruits and animal products.
Tobacco varieties from countries that have fallen under restrictions are used by more than 90 percent of mixtures in Russian factories. At the same time, they cannot be grown in Russia, the CIS countries and in most other worlds of the world, so there is nothing to replace the supply.
According to Vorontsov, the ban will lead to a “imminent stop” of the tobacco industry in Russia, the receipt of the main volume of cigarettes will cease, and the companies will be forced to send tens of thousands of people to “forced”.
Earlier, the Ministry of Finance of Russia developed a draft law on state regulation of production and turnover of tobacco products, which involves changing the existing rules. In particular, the Ministry of Finance decided to seek the inclusion of data on tobacco products into a single state automated information system (EGAIS), where information on the production and sale of alcohol is tracked.