Russia: 89,000 tonnes of malt imported in the first four months of 2005

Russia imported 89,000 tonnes of malt in January-April this year. Imports for the whole year may tumble to half of last year’s 555,000 tonnes.

Russia imported 555,000 metric tonnes of malt in 2004 compared to 513,000 metric tonnes in 2003 that is 8.2% increase. Only in the forth quarter of 2004 Russia imported 81,000 metric tonnes of malt.

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