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Ukraine’s national anti-corruption agency added Bacardi Limited to its list of international war sponsors, citing the company’s continued business and tax payments in Russia.
Ukraine’s national anti-corruption agency added Bacardi Limited to its list of international war sponsors, citing the company’s continued business and tax payments in Russia.
Ehhh…I dunno. Russia also produces grain, and I bet that means that they produce alcohol.
goes looking
https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore?country=186&queryLevel=location&product=837&year=2021&productClass=HS&target=Product&partner=undefined&startYear=undefined
https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore?country=186&queryLevel=location&product=837&year=2021&tradeDirection=import&productClass=HS&target=Product&partner=undefined&startYear=undefined
Okay, so based on liquors, in 2021, $212 million in exports, $832 million in imports.
Beer is $141 million in exports, $361 million in imports.
Wine is $11.5 million in exports, $842 million in imports.
So, yeah, you’re right, I guess – unless I’ve missed some sort of category of drink – that Russia’s definitely a net importer of alcoholic beverages.
Who tf is importing Russian wine? They should be in the Hague just for trying to push that on the world.
https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore?country=186&queryLevel=location&product=833&year=2021&productClass=HS&target=Product&partner=undefined&startYear=undefined
This is for 2021; I suspect that a few numbers have likely changed significantly.
42.75% of Russian wine exports went to Ukraine.
11.52% to China.
11.12% of Kazakhstan
8% to Belarus
5.22% to Latvia
I’m gonna stop at 5%, but you can go look at the treemap if you want more detail (like I said, though, the entire exports in 2021 were $11.5 million, so it’s not a whole lot…I would guess that the numbers could be pretty noisy from year to year).
Having had a decent amount of Chinese wine, all I can say is Russian can’t be worse?
It’s only 165k but who on earth is importing Russian wine in France?
guesses
Russian restaurants in France?
googles
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g187147-d718634-Reviews-La_Cantine_Russe-Paris_Ile_de_France.html
googles for a wine menu
https://cdn.eat-list.fr/establishment/menu/gallery_menu/75016-paris-16/la-cantine-russe_2679_40b.jpg
Yeah, they have Russian wines listed. Under the champagne section, but I’m assuming that that’s a listing error, given that France has a bit of a spat with Russia over what constitutes champagne.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57733684
Maybe it is code for something less vile, like irradiated soil.
That doesn’t count alcohol produced and consumed domestically. While they might import a lot, they might produce more and drink it themselves.
Yeah, true, but I wasn’t trying so much to find whether there was a lot of alcohol being consumed. My aim was more to see whether Russia was a net importer or exporter, since the claim was that alcohol producers [outside Russia] would be upset with the Russian sanctions, that it would cut the producers off from the Russian market.
However, if Russia were a net exporter and you are an alcohol producer, then it’d be removing more competition than it would be closing off markets; producers would likely benefit.
I see not too many people outside of Russia are desperate enough to drink Russian wine, but more than I thought.