By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
Russia and Egypt are in the midst of a serious trade crisis.
Russia is one of the world's largest exporters of wheat and Egypt is the largest importer of wheat in the world.
In August a shipment of Russian wheat arrived in Egypt contaminated with a common fungus called ergot. Egypt rejected the shipment.
Then Russia rejected Egyptian citrus fruit saying that the fruit shipment was potentially rotten.
Now a special Egyptian delegation is off to Moscow to solve the problem. But Egypt will not accept tainted wheat. There is no doubt that ergot ruins wheat, but Egypt has been filling part of Russia’s fruit needs since the breakdown of Russian Turkey relations earlier this year.
Egypt needs both to get Russia's wheat and to sell them fruit. Russia is in the driver’s seat in this dialogue. Is anyone surprised?
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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