On 29 June 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree extending the Russian ban on specified agricultural products for an additional 18 months, to 31 December 2017. This is the second extension to the August 2014 Presidential Decree on the 'Application of Certain Special Economic Measures in order to protect the National Security of the Russian Federation' imposing bans on the import of specified agricultural products originating from a number of countries, including Australia, United States, EU member states, Norway and Canada. There has been no change to list of banned source countries.
Current status
The list of banned products remains largely the same, with some adjustments made to permit imports of certain products used in the production of baby food, which are certified as organic, have been approved by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation in accordance with its established procedure (yet to be established) and are within the volume of permitted imports of the specified products.
Products banned under the 2016 decree are specified by Harmonized Systems (HS) Code.
Information about what’s included under each HS code that has been banned is in the following table.
Note: all commodities under the HS Codes specified below are banned under the decree issued by the Russian Federation except where exceptions are specified.
| HS Codes | Total affected commodity (as at 11 November 2016) |
|---|---|
| 0201 | Meat of bovine animals, fresh or chilled |
| 0202** | Meat of bovine animals, frozen |
| 0203 | Meat of swine, fresh, chilled or frozen |
| 0207** | Meat and edible offal of poultry from 0105, fresh, chilled or frozen |
| 0210 | Meat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal |
| 0301 (except for 0301.11.000.0, 0301.19.000.0) | Live fish except for fry of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), fry of trout (Salmo trutta) fry of trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), fry of turbot (Psetta maxima), fry of European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) and live decorative fish |
| 0302 | Fish, fresh or chilled, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat |
| 0303 | Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat |
| 0304 | Fish fillets and other fish meat (whether or not minced) fresh, chilled or frozen |
| 0305 | Fish, dried, salted or in brine; smoked fish; fish meal fit for human consumption |
| 0306 | Crustaceans, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; crustaceans, in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, whether or not chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine, excludes juveniles of whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) |
| 0307 | Molluscs, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine (excluding juvenile (spat) oysters and juvenile (spat) mussels) |
| 0308 | Aquatic invertebrates (excl. crustaceans and molluscs), live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted, in brine or smoked; flours, meals and pellets of aquatic invertebrates (excl. crustaceans and molluscs), fit for human consumption |
| 0401* | Milk and cream, not concentrated nor containing added sugar or other sweetening matter |
| 0402* | Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter |
| 0403* | Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yogurt, kephir and other fermented or acidified milk and cream, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured or containing added fruit or cocoa |
| 0404* | Whey, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter; products consisting of natural milk constituents, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, not elsewhere specified or incl |
| 0405* | Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk |
| 0406 | Cheese and curd |
| 0701 (excluding 0701.10 .000.0) | Potatoes, fresh or chilled |
| 0702 | Tomatoes, fresh or chilled |
| 0703 (excluding 0703.10. 110.0) | Onions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other alliaceous vegetables, fresh or chilled |
| 0704 | Cabbages, cauliflowers, kohlrabi, kale and similar edible brassicas, fresh or chilled |
| 0705 | Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) and chicory (Cichorium spp.), fresh or chilled |
| 0706 | Carrots, turnips, salad beetroot, salsify, celeriac, radishes and similar edible roots, fresh or chilled |
| 0707 | Cucumbers and gherkins, fresh or chilled |
| 0708 | Leguminous vegetables, shelled or unshelled, fresh or chilled |
| 0709 | Vegetables, other than potatoes, tomatoes, onions etc, cabbages and cauliflower, lettuce, root vegetables, legumes or cucumbers, fresh or chilled |
| 0710** | Vegetables (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water), frozen |
| 0711 | Vegetables provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions), but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption |
| 0712** (excluding 0712. 90.110.0) | Dried vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared |
| 0713 (excluding 0713.10.100.0) | Dried leguminous vegetables, shelled, whether or not skinned or split |
| 0714 | Manioc, arrowroot, salep, jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes and similar roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, fresh or dried, whether or not sliced or in the form of pellets; sago pith |
| 0801 | Coconuts, brazil nuts and cashew nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled |
| 0802 | Other nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled |
| 0803 | Bananas, including plantains, fresh or dried |
| 0804 | Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried |
| 0805 | Citrus fruit, fresh or dried |
| 0806 | Grapes, fresh or dried |
| 0807 | Melons (including watermelons) and (papayas), fresh |
| 0808 | Apples, pears and quinces, fresh |
| 0809 | Apricots, cherries, peaches (including nectarines), plums and sloes, fresh |
| 0810 | Fruit, other than bananas, dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes, mangosteens, citrus fruit, grapes, melons, papaws, apples, pears, quinces, apricots, cherries, peaches (including nectarines), plums or sloes, fresh |
| 0811 | Fruit and nuts, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water, frozen, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter |
| 0813 | Fruit, dried, other than bananas, dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes, mangosteens, citrus fruit or grapes; mixtures of nuts or dried fruits of this chapter |
| 1601 | Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal or blood; food preparations based on these products |
| 1901 90 110, 1901 90 910, 1901 90 990 0 |
Malt extract; food preparations of flour, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing more than 50% cocoa powder, not elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of dairy products, not containing more than 10% cocoa powder, nes. Food or finished products manufactured according to cheese production technology that contain 1.5 percent or more of milk fat |
| 2106.90.920.0, 2106.90.980.4, 2106.90.980.5, 2106.90.980.9 | Food (containing milk, based on vegetable oils) |
| 2501.00 | Salt (including table salt and denatured salt) and pure sodium chloride, whether or not in aqueous solution or containing added anti-caking or free-flowing agents; sea water |
* Excluding specialised lactose-free milk and specialised lactose free dairy products intended as dietary therapeutical food and dietary protective food.
** Excluding products used specifically for the production of baby food, which are certified as organic and, have been approved by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation in accordance with its established procedure and within the volume of permitted imports of the specified products.
The department is not aware of any information to suggest that the list of products covered under the Decree will be expanded.