Between January and September 2018, Russia imported 47.4 bln RUB worth of veterinary products (free circulation prices), which is in monetary terms 15.3% higher than that of the same period of 2017. The import of feed supplements amounted to 27.3 bln RUB, with a 16.9% increase. The import of veterinary drugs amounted to 18.7 bln RUB, with a 13.6% increase. The import of veterinary APIs amounted to 1.5 mln RUB, with a 15% increase.

The dynamics in physical terms are -13.3% for veterinary APIs, -7% for feed supplements, and -0.6% for veterinary drugs.

Among feed supplements, 74% of the import in monetary terms is for metabolism boosters, 14% for digestive systems drugs, and 12% for food quality boosters. Metabolism booster Metamino by Evonik accounts for 9% of the import. Between January and September 2018, Evonik imported 4 product names to Russia.

As for veterinary drugs, the top three among EphMRA second level group are vaccines (43%), others (23%), and systemic antibacterial drugs (19%.) Swine vaccine Ingelvac by Boehringer accounts for 8% of the import.

API for antibacterial drug Tysolin tartrate accounts for 13% of the total veterinary API import. Between January and September 2018, it was imported by 5 companies, but Huvepharma accounted for most of the import (82%.) The main importer was Russian Simbio.

Dynamics of import of veterinary drugs, feed supplements, and veterinary APIs to Russia, free circulation prices including customs clearance, bln RUB (January 2017 – September 2018)