Kerry misses the opportunity to receive Russian state awards
After yet another threat from representatives of the overseas administration about sanctions against Russia - now about sanctions in the form of a possible expulsion of the Russian Federation from the World Trade Organization - it finally became clear that this same overseas administration was spewing words out of the mouth without the need for their prior deliberation. Apparently, US apparatchiks are seriously convinced that Russia's exclusion from the WTO is a full-fledged anti-Russian economic sanction ... At the same time, in the White House, from the depths of which such a threat came to our country, they were genuinely surprised that in Russia the entire industrial sectors rejoiced at such a perspective. The same John Kerry, did not understand why the Russians clapped their hands upon learning that they were threatened with expulsion from the World Trade Organization. He even rushed, apparently, to the shelf with Dostoevsky and Tolstoy (if there are such books in the library of the American secretary of state), in order to find among these authors a clue to the "secrets of the Russian soul" in relation to various sanctions and threats ...
In general, the threat from the United States about the possible expulsion of Russia from the WTO, because Russia takes its own tough position on the situation in Ukraine, looks really ridiculous. In the non-literary version of the Russian language, as an “analysis” of such American threats, there is an excellent saying, which in a more or less literary version can be represented in the form: “They frightened the hedgehog with a bare back seat”. Mikhail Delyagin talked about this in the program with the entertaining title “Mausoleum for John Kerry”.
So, if the States really give us such a gift and exclude the Russian Federation from the WTO, what will Russia lose? ABOUT! Losses will be "enormous" ... We will not be able to import imported goods (from underwear to machine tools) with minimal duties or in the absence of those, killing our own production. We will not be able to say welcome genetically modified and transgenic agricultural products from Europe, the United States and Asia, which are rushing to the Russian market, poisoning their own population. We can not ... Tears wrapped in my eyes from such a "terrible" perspective ...
If we take into account that today the Ministry of Agriculture is puzzled about where to find funds to subsidize the domestic producer so that its products can at least somehow (at least in the domestic market) compete with the Dutch tomatoes poured into Russia with a significant decrease in import duties even the fly is afraid to sit), Polish apples, Cambodian rice, American beef, such “losses” to the same Ministry of Agriculture, not to mention the domestic agricultural producers, will go only on hand. Let's not forget that one of the “remarkable” WTO requirements for Russia after its accession is the requirement to reduce state support for agricultural production. It is a requirement!
If Russia follows this clause of the agreement with the World Trade Organization, by 2015, the state support in the sector in question should be reduced to a historical minimum history modern Russia (not to mention the comparison with the USSR): the state support of Russian agricultural production is already today in 16 (!) lower than (in relative values) of similar indicators of the year 1989. At the same time, the EU market for Russian agricultural products is closed by a multi-meter customs fence. It’s no joke to say: Russia's import customs duties for some types of European and American products are about 10-12 times lower than import duties from the EU and the USA for goods from Russia. Fair play, do not say anything ...
By the way, isn’t this “fair” game buried numerous productions in different countries of Eastern Europe after their entry into the WTO: Bulgaria, with the most powerful agricultural industry once, “thanks to” the “fair” game of the WTO turned into a country that imports from Holland, attention ... even Bulgarian pepper ... In the same line of exporters (not only in the agricultural sector), which the European Union and the WTO were turned into indebted impassable importers, forced to close production by dozens or even hundreds per year, Romania, Moldova, Slovakia, the Baltic countries and Hungary, and, of course, Ukraine.
In this regard, Ukraine needs to say a few words separately. A vivid example of how the WTO “honestly” works in those countries that are turning into compound feed for the main players who have composed the myth of equal trade, is the Crimea. Since Ukraine entered the World Trade Organization (May 2008), the volume of European and American imports in autonomy has grown more than fourfold! How did this affect local production? ..
The main importers to the territory of Crimea are such countries as Germany, Great Britain, USA, China.
Ferrous metals exports, which provide manufacturing enterprises in Kerch, after the entry of the Crimea, together with Ukraine into the WTO on the European market, fell more than 100 times! Incredible value! In 2009, exports of ferrous metals from the ARC reached 15,5 million dollars, in 2013, exports of the same products amounted to slightly more than 125 thousand dollars ... As they say, feel the difference. However, indicators of imports of ferrous metallurgy products only increased.
Today, more than a hundred and a half enterprises of the metallurgical, chemical, food, tobacco, machine-building, and light industry operate in the Crimea. A special role is played by enterprises engaged in the production of high-quality alcoholic beverages. In Crimea, ship repair factories, enterprises that create high-quality optics work. However, the products and services of the overwhelming majority of these enterprises, after Ukraine joined the WTO, lost all hope of becoming competitive not only in the world, but even in the domestic market. Due to the lack of access to the markets of Europe, many enterprises either cease to exist or are looking for opportunities to enter the markets of the Customs Union.
If the Crimeans in the 16 March referendum vote for joining Russia as a new entity, and if the Russian authorities support this decision, it will favorably affect the development of the competitiveness of autonomous enterprises. The fact is that Russia, when entering the WTO, was able to “bargain” for milder conditions, although they are already yielding negative results for the financial and economic system of the Russian Federation. It turns out that for the West to miss the Crimea is not only a geopolitical, but also an economic failure. Indeed, in this case, the Crimea will have to play by other rules, play through Moscow, and this, as they say, is a completely different story ...
In this regard, the threat to expel Russia from the WTO due to the fact that it (Russia) is firmly in its position on the status of the Crimea, looks just enchanting. That would be the same Kerry from the words about the WTO to the case went ... After that, he could be given the title "For merits to the Fatherland" ...
But Kerry, apparently, fears the possibility of being awarded the Russian state award - administration colleagues will not understand ... On Monday, US Secretary of State 10 in March said:
Sorry, John ... Very sorry ...
In general, the threat from the United States about the possible expulsion of Russia from the WTO, because Russia takes its own tough position on the situation in Ukraine, looks really ridiculous. In the non-literary version of the Russian language, as an “analysis” of such American threats, there is an excellent saying, which in a more or less literary version can be represented in the form: “They frightened the hedgehog with a bare back seat”. Mikhail Delyagin talked about this in the program with the entertaining title “Mausoleum for John Kerry”.
So, if the States really give us such a gift and exclude the Russian Federation from the WTO, what will Russia lose? ABOUT! Losses will be "enormous" ... We will not be able to import imported goods (from underwear to machine tools) with minimal duties or in the absence of those, killing our own production. We will not be able to say welcome genetically modified and transgenic agricultural products from Europe, the United States and Asia, which are rushing to the Russian market, poisoning their own population. We can not ... Tears wrapped in my eyes from such a "terrible" perspective ...
If we take into account that today the Ministry of Agriculture is puzzled about where to find funds to subsidize the domestic producer so that its products can at least somehow (at least in the domestic market) compete with the Dutch tomatoes poured into Russia with a significant decrease in import duties even the fly is afraid to sit), Polish apples, Cambodian rice, American beef, such “losses” to the same Ministry of Agriculture, not to mention the domestic agricultural producers, will go only on hand. Let's not forget that one of the “remarkable” WTO requirements for Russia after its accession is the requirement to reduce state support for agricultural production. It is a requirement!
If Russia follows this clause of the agreement with the World Trade Organization, by 2015, the state support in the sector in question should be reduced to a historical minimum history modern Russia (not to mention the comparison with the USSR): the state support of Russian agricultural production is already today in 16 (!) lower than (in relative values) of similar indicators of the year 1989. At the same time, the EU market for Russian agricultural products is closed by a multi-meter customs fence. It’s no joke to say: Russia's import customs duties for some types of European and American products are about 10-12 times lower than import duties from the EU and the USA for goods from Russia. Fair play, do not say anything ...
By the way, isn’t this “fair” game buried numerous productions in different countries of Eastern Europe after their entry into the WTO: Bulgaria, with the most powerful agricultural industry once, “thanks to” the “fair” game of the WTO turned into a country that imports from Holland, attention ... even Bulgarian pepper ... In the same line of exporters (not only in the agricultural sector), which the European Union and the WTO were turned into indebted impassable importers, forced to close production by dozens or even hundreds per year, Romania, Moldova, Slovakia, the Baltic countries and Hungary, and, of course, Ukraine.
In this regard, Ukraine needs to say a few words separately. A vivid example of how the WTO “honestly” works in those countries that are turning into compound feed for the main players who have composed the myth of equal trade, is the Crimea. Since Ukraine entered the World Trade Organization (May 2008), the volume of European and American imports in autonomy has grown more than fourfold! How did this affect local production? ..
The main importers to the territory of Crimea are such countries as Germany, Great Britain, USA, China.
Ferrous metals exports, which provide manufacturing enterprises in Kerch, after the entry of the Crimea, together with Ukraine into the WTO on the European market, fell more than 100 times! Incredible value! In 2009, exports of ferrous metals from the ARC reached 15,5 million dollars, in 2013, exports of the same products amounted to slightly more than 125 thousand dollars ... As they say, feel the difference. However, indicators of imports of ferrous metallurgy products only increased.
Today, more than a hundred and a half enterprises of the metallurgical, chemical, food, tobacco, machine-building, and light industry operate in the Crimea. A special role is played by enterprises engaged in the production of high-quality alcoholic beverages. In Crimea, ship repair factories, enterprises that create high-quality optics work. However, the products and services of the overwhelming majority of these enterprises, after Ukraine joined the WTO, lost all hope of becoming competitive not only in the world, but even in the domestic market. Due to the lack of access to the markets of Europe, many enterprises either cease to exist or are looking for opportunities to enter the markets of the Customs Union.
If the Crimeans in the 16 March referendum vote for joining Russia as a new entity, and if the Russian authorities support this decision, it will favorably affect the development of the competitiveness of autonomous enterprises. The fact is that Russia, when entering the WTO, was able to “bargain” for milder conditions, although they are already yielding negative results for the financial and economic system of the Russian Federation. It turns out that for the West to miss the Crimea is not only a geopolitical, but also an economic failure. Indeed, in this case, the Crimea will have to play by other rules, play through Moscow, and this, as they say, is a completely different story ...
In this regard, the threat to expel Russia from the WTO due to the fact that it (Russia) is firmly in its position on the status of the Crimea, looks just enchanting. That would be the same Kerry from the words about the WTO to the case went ... After that, he could be given the title "For merits to the Fatherland" ...
But Kerry, apparently, fears the possibility of being awarded the Russian state award - administration colleagues will not understand ... On Monday, US Secretary of State 10 in March said:
The US is not imposing sanctions against Russia deliberately in order to be able to conduct a dialogue with a view to de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine
- quotes Kerry ITAR-TASS. Sorry, John ... Very sorry ...
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