In 2023, Armenia ranked fifth in the list of largest importers of whiskey to Russia, surpassing Spain. This was reported by RIA News with reference to supplier data for January-September of current and recent years.
The material shows that in 2022 Armenia takes sixth place in the relevant list. However, the republic increased its whiskey imports to Russia to 5.6 million dollars in monetary terms, allowing it to rise one place.
Overall, Moscow imported a total of $262.5 million worth of whiskey in the nine months since the beginning of this year, almost quadrupling compared to the same period last year, according to the agency.
At the same time, Latvia became the leader in the supply of the mentioned drink to the territory of Russia. Local companies shipped $190.6 million worth of products, a more than sixfold increase from last year.
“Second-placed Lithuania also increased its supply volume significantly, shipping nine times more whiskey in monetary terms than last year – $28.9 million,” the publication says.
England and France ranked third and fourth in terms of the amount of whiskey supplied to the country. As stated in the material, they imported products worth $10.4 million and $7 million respectively.
As the president of the Ladoga company Veniamin Grabar said, Latvia’s leadership in the ranking of the largest suppliers is associated with the re-export of products. Due to sanctions, many foreign companies do not want to take risks and point to the Baltic Republic as the final destination of the beverages.
In return, Latvian companies send goods to Russia. According to the entrepreneur, the changes only affected the document flow; The logistics chain remained the same.
Russians before said About the main mistake when choosing whiskey.
Source: Gazeta
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