The Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 688 as of 20 September 2024 has introduced a temporary ban on the export of certain types of industrial goods. The document was officially published on the National Legal Internet Portal, BelTA has learned.
The document establishes a temporary ban on the export of goods outside Belarus to the EAEU member-states regardless of the country of origin. The ban applies to gypsum, anhydrite, dental cements and other filling materials, bone cements, devices for stomical use, flat, sensitized, unexposed photographic plates and photographic films of any material other than paper, cardboard or textile, x-ray, disinfectants, gloves, mittens and mitts used for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary purposes, glass ampoules, waste and scrap tungsten and its products, compressed or liquefied gas containers made of ferrous metal. The list also includes knives and cutting blades for machinery or mechanical appliances, industrial or laboratory burners and furnaces, including incinerators, non-electric, fork lift trucks, other carts equipped with lifting or handling equipment, and other items.
There is also a temporary ban on the export of goods outside the customs territory of the EAEU from Belarus to states that are not EAEU member states when they are placed under the customs procedures of export, temporary export, processing outside the customs territory and re-export.
The ban does not apply to goods with a certificate confirming their Belarusian or Russian origin, goods with a certificate confirming own production and goods with a certificate confirming their compliance with the requirements for classifying them as manufactured in Belarus, issued by the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The ban does not apply to goods with an extract from the Eurasian register and to a number of other cases that are laid out in the document.
The resolution came into force on 23 September and is valid for six months.