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military goods, firearms, and ammunition.
Despite extreme sanctions, Western technology sanctions have largely failed to prevent Russia importing machines and electronics it cannot make itself. To minimise the risk of sanctions circum- vention, the EU will ban the transit through Belarus of dual-use goods and technologies, items that could contrib- ute to Belarus' military and technical enhancement, and goods that could strengthen its industrial capabilities. Additionally, to counter the re-export of military goods found in Ukraine or criti- cal to the development of Russian mili- tary systems, EU operators selling such goods to third countries will need to implement due diligence mechanisms.
The EU Council adopted the fourteenth package of economic on June 24, that also include individual restrictive measures against Russia. For the first time since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, these measures include sanctions against Russian gas.
Russian, Belarusian grain import tariff hiked
In a parallel development, sanctions
on imports of grain from Russia and Belarus to the EU came into effect on June 30 that increase tariffs in an effort to promote more imports of grain to Europe. Tariffs were increased to 50% of the market price for certain grains, according to a May 30 European Council decree.
and Phytosanitary Supervision of Russia, told TASS that the decision will harm European food and port industries more than Russia, which will be able to diversify to other markets. "They have lost capacities on fertilizer, and they will lose port capacities on grain as well," Dankvert said, TASS reports.
The European Council asserted that the aim of the tariffs is to halt the
“The Council of the EU also prohibits the provision of certain services to Belarus, its government, state agencies, corporations, or agents, as well as to any individual or legal entity acting on their behalf or under their direction”
Russia remained unfazed by the new measures. Sergey Dankvert, head of Russia’s Federal Service for Veterinary
“destabilization of European markets” by Russian grain and reduce Russia’s agricultural income. The tariffs will
The Council of Europe has imposed new sanctions on Belarus designed to stop sanctioned goods from reaching Moscow via Minsk. The EU has also drastically hiked grain import tariffs from Russia and Belarus to make space on the market for more Ukrainian grain imports. / bne IntelliNews
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