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You hate to be an alcohol producer when the russia sanctions start
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).
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
Having had a decent amount of Chinese wine, all I can say is Russian can't be worse?
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.