Saturday 11 September 2010

When is an export ban not an export ban?

“The Ukrainian government does not plan to introduce any grain export restrictions” Ukrainian Premier Azarov said yesterday.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, stop please, my sides are splitting!

He went further "I want to say we don’t plan any export restrictions. We gathered grain traders and told them openly what volume can be shipped abroad to draw up an export schedule, so that it would not disrupt our price stability and our grain stocks”.

So that’s a restriction on grain exports then.