Ukraine applies 12 restrictive measures against imports from Russia – Kubiv

First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Minister of Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv says Ukraine applies 12 restrictive measures in relation to imports of goods originating from Russia.

Read alsoUkraine files another suit against Russia with WTO"I want to say that as of today, there are 12 trade safeguard measures in place with regard to the imports of goods originating from the Russian Federation," Kubiv said at a briefing in Kyiv on March 27.

According to the official, 10 restrictive measures are anti-dumping, one is compensatory and another one is special.

As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine introduced an anti-dumping duty on fittings and rolled products from Russia at the end of 2017, on Russian chocolate in May 2017, and on grinding wheels in April 2017. The Economic Development and Trade Ministry also announced an anti-dumping probe into imports of soda, fibreboard, slate, and polyurethane products. On March 26, Ukraine's Interdepartmental Commission on International Trade decided to apply an anti-dumping duty on Russian ammonium nitrate. In middle of February 2017, Ukraine, as a WTO member, filed a lawsuit against Russia for the numerous transit restrictions imposed by Moscow on Ukrainian goods in 2016.

In the winter of 2016, exports of Ukrainian goods to Russia were significantly restricted, and then a complete embargo was imposed on Ukraine's food exports to Russia. In July 2017, Russia continued the trade restrictions policy, closing transit shipments of Ukrainian goods through its territory to third countries, primarily Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. In October 2017, Ukraine filed a new lawsuit with the World Trade Organization against the Russian Federation related to the restriction on imports of food and industrial goods.