27 декабря 2023 — 12:00
Belarus has extended restrictions on the import of food products from European countries until the end of 2024. This is provided for by the resolution of the Council of Ministers of December 26, 2023 No. 934, which is published on the National Legal Internet Portal, Belta reports.
"To extend until December 31, 2024, inclusive, the effect of paragraphs 1 and 3-5 of the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 700 dated December 6, 2021 "On the application of special measures in respect of certain types of goods," the document says.
Recall that the food embargo was adopted by the Government of Belarus in December 2021. At that time, the authorities stated that measures would be taken in the country to ensure the balance of the consumer market, including by saturating it with products of their own production.
The import ban applies to certain goods from the European Union, the United States, Canada, Norway, Albania, Iceland, North Macedonia, Great Britain, Montenegro, Switzerland, Serbia and Liechtenstein. The list of prohibited goods includes pork, cattle meat, a number of offal products, salted meat, in brine, dried or smoked, edible flour from meat or meat offal, milk and dairy products (with some exceptions), pork fat and poultry fat, cattle fat, sheep or goats, lard-stearin and other animal oils, sausages and similar products, confectionery.