Thursday, Nov. 26, 1998

Snapshots

* Sausage prices have been forced up because producers have had to import most of their beef from the West. Customs duties and value-added taxes can add 20 percent to 30 percent to the cost of imported beef.

* Russia's wheat harvest of 52 million metric tons was the lowest in memory.

* Many of the collective farms around Moscow have gone bankrupt as government subsidies dropped or were eliminated.

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