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The import ban has been lifted for lactose-free milk, lactose-free dairy products, seed potatoes, seed onions, seed sweet corn and seed peas.

The ban has also been lifted for sports nutrition, biologically-active food supplements, and complexes of vitamins and minerals.

Russia has also allowed imports of Atlantic salmon and trout fingerlings.

The Agriculture Ministry's press secretary Dagnija Muceniece told the business portal Nozare.lv that this move by Russia will not improve the situation for Latvia's farmers much, as they either do not export such products to Russia, or export them in very small quantities.

As reported, on August 7, Russia introduced an embargo on the majority of food products that come from the EU, the United States and other Western countries that imposed sanctions against Moscow.