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April 17, 2013

 

Custom Union excludes pork, poultry products from tariff preferences
 

 

The Board of Eurasian Economic Commission for Europe, the management body of Custom Union (Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan),   will exclude fresh, chilled or frozen pork and poultry meat and processed products from the list of imported goods from developing and least developed countries with the special tariff preferences.

 

Tariff preferences were set at 0.75% for  products from developing countries, and 0% for products  from the least developed countries.
 

"After Russia's accession to the WTO, import duties within the quota was set to zero or significantly reduced, we decided to exclude these goods from preferential list," explained the representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture.

 

"Granting of tariff preferences for goods imported outside the quota contradicts the meaning of the tariff quotas," commented Minister of Trade Eurasian Economic Commission, Andrew Slepnev.

 

Russian Agriculture Minister Nikolai Fyodorov estimated that the Russian agriculture sector's losses from tariff preferences are more than RUB7-8 billion (US$235-265 million). Countries that benefitted from the tariff preferences were mostly from Africa and some from Asia.
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