MOSCOW: Russia’s agricultural and food sector regulator, Rosselkhoznadzor, said that the ban on imports of milk and dairy products from Belarus to Russia would become effective from 6 March.
On 22 February 2018, Rosselkhoznadzor announced the introduction of the ban on dairy exports from Belarus, allegedly triggered by product quality concerns about Belarusian dairy exports, from 26 February.Both Belarus and Russia are members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), founded in 2015, alongside with Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, where trade between the member states should be unrestricted. It was established as a Russian-centred alternative to the European Union (EU) for the post-Soviet states, and is similarly based on unrestricted movement of goods, services, capital and labour. Russia is the dominant economy in the EEU, representing 87% of the combined GDP.
