06 мая 2024 — 14:00
A temporary ban on the export of cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose is being introduced in Russia, the Federal Customs Service reports. The resolution on this has been signed.
The restriction will be in effect until August 31, 2024. The decision is aimed at maintaining the stability of the domestic food market.
The resolution provides for a number of exceptions. Thus, sugar supplies will be possible to the EAEU countries in certain volumes:
• to Armenia – 28 thousand tons,
• to Belarus – 5 thousand tons,
• to Kazakhstan – 120 thousand tons,
• to Kyrgyzstan – 28.5 thousand tons.
The Ministry of Agriculture has been instructed to distribute these volumes among participants in foreign trade activities.