Article: Food & Agriculture Report.

THE WEEK IN BRIEF

*** It is possible that Russia's GDP growth might exceed the predicted 3.6% this year, Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref said at a press conference on Tuesday. He said that GDP growth would be no less than 3.6% and "might slightly exceed this level." Russia posted GDP growth of 3.7% in the first five months, while industrial output expanded 2.7%, Gref noted.

*** Access for U.S. poultry to the Russian market is not the only barrier to the U.S. Congress scrapping the Jackson-Vanik amendment, President of the U.S.-Russian Trade and Industrial Chamber Yelena Teplitskaya thinks. She told the Federation Council's ...

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