Armenian Spayka makes second attempt to ship its cheese to Russia
14.11.2019,
19:25
Armenia’s leading freight and agribusiness company Spayka said today it is making a second attempt to send a batch of 20 tons of its cheese to Russia.
YEREVAN, November 14. /АРКА/. Armenia’s leading freight and agribusiness company Spayka said today it is making a second attempt to send a batch of 20 tons of its cheese to Russia.
On November 7, Spayka announced that Russian customs officers at the Upper Lars checkpoint on the Russian-Georgian border would not allow a truck with 21 tons of blue cheese produced by its recently created factory into Russia for 24 days. Eventually, the truck had to return to Armenia.
According to Spayka, on November 5, Russian customs officials verbally notified one of the drivers that they would not be able to let the cheese into Russia and would send it back to Armenia, because of the country of origin that was mentioned 'Armenia, Southwest Asia, Southeast Europe.'
Spayka said that on November 7, acting on an instruction of the State Revenue Committee, it asked the Chamber of Commerce and Armenian Expertise LLC to conduct an on-site through study at its cheese factory.
It said the whole process of cheese production - from the purchase of milk to the packaging of the finished product was thoroughly examined, including documents on the purchase of milk, cheese and other ingredients from Armenian farmers.
Following the study, Spayka received from the certification department of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Armenia a product certificate (ST-1) and an official document on the examination of the origin of goods.
Armenia’s leading freight and agribusiness company Spayka was founded in 2001. It exports fruits, vegetables and some prepared foodstuffs. -0---
On November 7, Spayka announced that Russian customs officers at the Upper Lars checkpoint on the Russian-Georgian border would not allow a truck with 21 tons of blue cheese produced by its recently created factory into Russia for 24 days. Eventually, the truck had to return to Armenia.
According to Spayka, on November 5, Russian customs officials verbally notified one of the drivers that they would not be able to let the cheese into Russia and would send it back to Armenia, because of the country of origin that was mentioned 'Armenia, Southwest Asia, Southeast Europe.'
Spayka said that on November 7, acting on an instruction of the State Revenue Committee, it asked the Chamber of Commerce and Armenian Expertise LLC to conduct an on-site through study at its cheese factory.
It said the whole process of cheese production - from the purchase of milk to the packaging of the finished product was thoroughly examined, including documents on the purchase of milk, cheese and other ingredients from Armenian farmers.
Following the study, Spayka received from the certification department of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Armenia a product certificate (ST-1) and an official document on the examination of the origin of goods.
Armenia’s leading freight and agribusiness company Spayka was founded in 2001. It exports fruits, vegetables and some prepared foodstuffs. -0---
