Belarus will halt the transit of the Russian Federation subjects of sanctions from Ukraine, told reporters on Thursday in Minsk the head of the state customs Department of the Republic of Yuri Senko.
Ban on import of Ukrainian food, like a normal trade regime (now a significant part of the items delivered from Ukraine to Russia free of duty), to act in the case of the Kyiv economic part of the Treaty on the Union with EU or from 1 January 2016, if the trilateral dialogues with the participation of the Russian Federation will not remove Russia's concerns in connection with the establishment of a free trade area (FTA) between Ukraine and the EU.
"We took it upon their own shoulders the obligation that if the product of the sanctions and the Russian Federation, We never miss it," said Senko, Recalling that Belarus is already working to prevent the transit of the sanctions of subjects of the Russian Federation from Western Europe.
"The Ukrainian direction is similar and no different ", - he stressed, adding that the Belarusian customs authorities until not received any official information about the Russian food embargo on Ukrainian goods, but hopeful in the near future to get.
Senko said that the West-European direction of Belarusian and Russian customs officers together have achieved "impressive results" in preventing the transit of the sanctions items." Such goods are not skipped, withdrawn, their fate decided by the court, " explained the head of the state customs Department.
Russia in the last month of summer 2014 has limited the import of food items from countries that have imposed against her punishment: USA, EU, Canada, Australia and Norway. A Ban were meat, sausage, fish and seafood, vegetables, fruits, dairy products. In June 2015, in response to the extension of the sanctions Russia has extended food embargo until 5 August 2016.
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