The Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) approved the list of goods originating from the 49 least developed countries and 104 developing countries, which, if imported into the EAEU territory, will be reduced by 25% or the rates of import customs duties will be zeroed.
According to the spokesman for the Minister of Trade Viktor Parakshin, the list was developed as part of the implementation of the agreements of the 9th WTO ministerial conference on liberalizing access to goods from the least developed countries.
The prepared list covers both goods already benefiting from tariff preferences (meat and food by-products, fish, dairy products, honey, fruits, nuts, coffee, tea, rice, spices, cocoa beans, collectibles and antiques, precious metals and pearls, carpets Manual work), as well as goods for which preferential access has been extended to the least developed countries (ferrous and non-ferrous metals, some types of engineering products).
"The approved list for the least developed countries, the quantity of goods falling under the complete zeroing of customs duties, was 62% of the total nomenclature," said Veronika Nikishina, member of the trade board (minister) for trade of the EEK. "In the future, we plan to continue expanding duty-free access to the maximum level of 97 % Of commodity nomenclature ".