Products that have been removed from the list include fresh and dried oranges, mandarins and other citrus fruit, fresh apricots, peaches and plums.
Reference
The resolution was submitted by the Ministry of Economic Development in execution of Presidential Executive Order No. 314 dated 30 June 2016 On Amendment to Presidential Executive Order No. 583 dated 28 November 2015 On Measures to Guarantee the National Security of the Russian Federation and to Protect Russian Citizens from Criminal and Other Unlawful Actions and on the Use of Special Economic Measures against the Republic of Turkey.
On 30 November 2015, the Government adopted Resolution No. 1296 to approve a list of agricultural produce, raw materials and food products originating from the Republic of Turkey and subject to an import ban effective 1 January 2016 (hereinafter referred to as the “list”).
Under the resolution the following products are excluded from the list:
- fresh and dried oranges (EAEU Commodity Classification of Foreign Economic Activity 0805 10);
- fresh and dried mandarins (including tangerines and satsuma mandarins), clementines, wilking mandarins and similar citrus hybrids (EAEU Commodity Classification of Foreign Economic Activity 0805 20);
– fresh apricots (EAEU Commodity Classification of Foreign Economic Activity 0809 10);
– fresh peaches, including nectarines (EAEU Commodity Classification of Foreign Economic Activity 0809 30);
– fresh plums and blackthorn (EAEU Commodity Classification of Foreign Economic Activity 0809 40).