AreaRussian Federation

Commodity GroupMeat

CommodityAll

Date20/09/2021

Policy CategoryTrade

Policy InstrumentImport ban extended

DescriptionExtended the foodstuffs embargo, including meat and meat products, up to December 2022. The embargo was initially imposed in August 2014 to products from Australia, Canada, the European Union, Norway and the United States of America. As of 13 August 2015, Albania, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Montenegro have been included in the list of these countries, as well as Ukraine from 11 January 2016. In December 2020, the Russian Federation extended the food embargo to the United Kingdom.