Imports of meat (except poultry meat) in the first 11 months of last year decreased by 37% compared with the figure for 11 months of 2017, to 367,6 thousand tons (in monetary terms - by 29.8%, to $1,311 billion), reported the Federal customs service.

The import of poultry meat has decreased by 10.3%, to 189.9 thousand tons (7%, to $312,1 million).

The import of the goods and canned meat increased by 1.8% to 16.5 thousand tons (3.1%, to $69.8 million).

Fish (fresh and frozen) imported 363,1 thousand tons, which is 3.9% lower than a year earlier. In value terms the import of fish has increased by 15.1%, to $1,154 billion.

Import condensed milk and cream fell by 33.7% to 149.2 thousand tonnes (46.3%, to $265,5 million), of butter - by 15.6%, to 79.3 thousand tons (25%, up to $377,4 million). At the same time increased the import of cheese and cottage cheese - by 18.1%, to of 243.6 thousand tons (1.8%, to $873,7 million).

Also increased imports of bananas (1.5%, to 1,424 million tons, or 2.2%, to $1,057 billion), citrus (7% to 1,277 million tons, or 3.5%, to $957,9 million) and apples (15.7%, to 1.02 million tonnes, or 24.8%, to $672 million).

Imports of coffee grew by 4.3% to 179,6 million tonnes (in value terms fell by 6.6%, to $543,2 million). The imports of tea fell by 2.5%, to 154,6 thousand tons, or 5.3%, to $467,3 million

Imports of soybeans rose 0.4 percent to 1,995 million tons (by 3.5%, to $886,8 million). The import of palm oil increased by 24.1% to and 946.1 thousand tons (12.2%, to $677,6 million).

Imports of vegetable oil increased by 13.1% to 24.9 thousand tons (10.1%, to $16.3 million).

Import of raw sugar fell by 73% to 5.7 thousand tons (66%, to $4.3 million). The import of white sugar increased by 22.2% to 276,2 thousand tons (6.9%, to $116,7 million).

Russia also increased its imports of cocoa beans (2.3% to 49.2 thousand tons, or 5.2%, to $129,6 million), cocoa butter (by 11.8% to 34.1 thousand tons, or 16.6%, to $204.2 mln) and products containing cocoa (20.5%, to 107 thousand tons, or by 17.9%, to $486,7 million).

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