SPUTNIK Moscow, November 22 - The news service of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture (Agroexport) announced at "2023 export guidelines: New Markets, new Opportunities" conference that seven export guidelines (drafted in 2019) for Russian food exporters to China will be updated before the end of the year.

Export guides are analytical materials that are reference materials for assessing the market in a particular sector of the country and contain information on market capacity and dynamics, current consumption trends, requirements for agricultural products in importing countries, organization of export deliveries, implementation of foreign exchange and financial transactions, trade-distribution networks and the competitive environment.

The Information Department pointed out that in 2023, the Agroexport and the RussianNational Research Higher University of Economics jointly prepared and published three guides to China (including Hong Kong), including a guide on exporting mutton and margarine to China and a guide on exporting wine to Hong Kong.

"By the end of this year, we plan to update seven guidelines for China (drafted in 2019)," a source from the Information Office said. The guidelines include poultry meat, chocolate and chocolate confectionery products, flour confectionery products, confectionery products, wheat flour, mineral water, and peas.

 It is also disclosed that in 2024, the agency will also issue two new export guidelines to China for Russian exporters, "Dairy products" and "sweet carbonated beverages".

From January to August 2023, Russia exported more than 5.5 million tons of agricultural products to China, 2.7 times that of the same period last year; Exports were 1.9 times that of the same period last year. Speaking at the Russia-China Business Forum in Shanghai on May 23, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that the Russian agricultural sector is ready to expand the scale and types of exports to China.