Pork not sanctions

Eurostat released Jan - Feb EU28 trade results last week and with the focus on Russia today, couldn't help but notice this:

But as Bloomberg News reports:

Italy, France, Belgium, Denmark, and the Netherlands are ready to provide bilateral pork-safety guarantees that would allow trade with those countries to resume, Russia’s Rosselkhoznadzor agency said in a statement yesterday. Russia blocked imports of EU pork in January after the fatal pig disease was discovered in wild boars in Lithuania and Poland, spurring the EU to file a case with the World Trade Organization last month. Russia is historically the largest buyer of EU pork.

“All this delays a solution for resuming pork deliveries from European Union countries to Russia,” Rosselkhoznadzor said. “Supplies from other areas are replacing European pork on the Russian market.”