EU plans new tariffs on agricultural imports from Belarus, Russia

January 29, Pozirk. The European Commission has adopted a proposal to impose tariffs on imports of agricultural products and nitrogen-based fertilizers from Belarus and Russia, it said in a press release yesterday.
New tariffs would reduce the European Union’s dependency on imports from both countries, which make the bloc “vulnerable to potential coercive actions by Russia and thus present a risk to EU food security,” it noted.
The move would place all Russian agricultural imports under tariffs, affecting Moscow’s export revenues and its ability to wage war against Ukraine, the release stressed.
At the same time, tariffs would prompt the EU to diversify imports from other countries, while providing for measures to mitigate potential price increases for EU farmers.
New tariffs would not apply to agricultural and fertilizer exports to third countries, the commission stressed.
The proposal may be adopted if the European Parliament and the EU Council approve it by a majority of votes.
Last July, the EU raised tariffs on imports of certain agricultural products from Russia and Belarus.
Belarus ranked as the third-largest supplier of nitrogen fertilizers to Poland after Russia and Germany, reports said a few months ago. It was also ahead of Norway in supplies of compound fertilizers to Poland in January-June, ranking sixth after Morocco, Russia, Finland, the Netherlands and Lithuania.
In February 2022, Russia started a full-scale war against Ukraine in which the Belarusian authorities supported the Kremlin, allowing Russian troops to attack Ukraine from Belarus on multiple occasions and supplying arms to Moscow.
- Politics, SocietyMałanka Media journalist beaten in VilniusThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- PoliticsLithuanian MP appeals to prosecutor’s office regarding Cichanoŭski’s remarksThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- Politics, Society
- Germany news, Politics
- PoliticsRights defenders declare eight people to be political prisonersThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- Politics, SocietyDeadline misstep leads to deportation for Belarusian family in SwedenThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- EconomyBelarus shows low coverage of external debt by international reservesThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- SocietyPoland seizes Belarusian cigarettes hidden in trucksThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- Politics, SocietyMoscow reasserts naming rules for Belarusian Orthodox ChurchThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- Economy, PoliticsPoland sanctions Belarusian Cement CompanyThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- Economy
- Politics, SocietyInterior ministry brands brother of jailed journalist Łosik, 13 others as extremistsThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- SocietyInvestigators uncover drug trafficking route via BelarusThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- SocietyExplosion wrecks at major gas pipeline near MinskThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- Society
- Society
- Politics, SportWorld Sailing: Belarusian athletes can compete as neutralsThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- Politics, Security
- SecurityPoland pulls out of Ottawa TreatyThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- SocietyBelarus to raise childcare benefitThe material is available only to POZIRK+