AreaBilateral/Multilateral

Commodity GroupGrains

CommodityRye and Buckwheat

Date18/04/2020

Policy CategoryTrade

Policy InstrumentImport tariff

DescriptionIn order to minimize the negative economic consequences of COVID-19, and prevent the deficit of “socially significant goods” in Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) countries, on April 18 the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission granted tariff preferences for some critical import goods in the form of exemption from import duties on deliveries to EAEU member states from 1 April 1 to 30 June, 2020, inclusive. The list of products includes certain agricultural and food products: rye, long grain rice, buckwheat groats, etc.