{"id":124018,"date":"2025-01-29T11:33:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T08:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/124018\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"eu-plans-new-tariffs-on-agricultural-imports-from-belarus-russia","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/124018\/","title":{"rendered":"EU plans new tariffs on agricultural imports from Belarus, Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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January 29, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New tariffs would reduce the European Union\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New tariffs would not apply to agricultural and fertilizer exports to third countries, the commission stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proposal may be adopted if the European Parliament and the EU Council approve it by a majority of votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last July, the EU raised tariffs on imports of certain agricultural products from Russia and Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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