Belarus extends export ban on over 250 types of industrial goods for another 6 months

MINSK. March 25 (Interfax) - The Belarusian government has once again extended the ban on exporting around 280 types of industrial goods for six months.

The corresponding government resolution was published on the National Legal Internet Portal.

"A temporary export ban is established for: goods from the list according to the annex being exported from Belarus to EAEU [Eurasian Economic Union] member states, regardless of their country of origin; goods being exported from the customs territory of the EAEU from Belarus to non-EAEU member states when placed under customs procedures of export, temporary export, outward processing and re-export," the document said.

According to the resolution, restrictions have been imposed on a wide range of industrial goods for both industrial and household use. In particular, the list includes forklifts, bulldozers, agricultural, gardening and forestry machinery, bicycles, motorcycles, passenger cars, tractors, railway locomotives, metal rolling mills, weaving machines and rail cars.

The list also includes boilers, turbines, internal combustion engines, pumps, refrigerators and freezers, dishwashers, washing and sewing machines, vacuum cleaners and telephone sets.

Other items in the list are gypsum, sterile suture materials, dental and bone reconstruction cements, dental appliances, paints and varnishes, modeling pastes, disinfectants, laboratory and diagnostic reagents and glass ampoules.

However, the ban does not apply to goods accompanied by a certificate of origin or expert opinion confirming their Belarusian or Russian origin; goods exported from Belarus under one-time licenses issued by the Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade Ministry; goods "transported between parts of Russian territory in transit through the territory of Belarus"; or goods "exported from Belarus to Russia under the Union State framework, including in transit through territories of other states."

The document also specifies a number of other conditions under which the temporary ban on the export of industrial goods will not apply.

Belarus first introduced a six-month ban on exporting a wide range of industrial goods in late March 2022 to protect the economic interests of the state. Since then, the resolution has been repeatedly extended, with the list of goods also being adjusted.