The Turkish Embassy of the Russian Federation is in contact with the republican authorities regarding the issue. public transport stops cargo goes to Russia. The newspaper writes about it on Friday, March 10 “News”.
“Currently, the embassy and trade delegation working to clarify the circumstances and background of the difficulties that arise with the registration of business activities of some Russian companies.
We are in contact with the Turkish authorities. We hope to resolve the situation in the near future,” he said.
March 9 radio station Kommersant FM He reported that the Turkish customs system suddenly began to prevent customs clearance of goods intended to cross into Russia. It was noted that all these cargoes fell under Western sanctions after the start of the war. special military operation RF in Ukraine.
As the head of the Gruzavtotrans association Vladimir Matyagin clarified, we are talking about sanctioned goods supplied to the Russian Federation through parallel channels. The list of products prohibited from importing into Russia includes machine tools, pipes and complex equipment, as well as tobacco, shoes, carpets, furs, clothes, watches and alcoholic beverages.
Ankara has yet to officially comment on the situation, but some experts attribute the behavior of customs officials to Washington’s pressure.
Last week, the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Treasury Department made recommendations to combat the circumvention of sanctions against the Russian Federation, urging supplies through Armenia, Turkey and Uzbekistan to be questionable. The United States has also promised to reward whistleblowers between 10% and 30% of the fines officials receive for violating restrictions.
as said “Rossiyskaya Newspaper” one of the market participants, on March 7, problems arose with the customs clearance of transit cargo in Turkey. Two days later, Turkish customs announced that they would not do transit operations for goods with HS code (the international harmonized coding system for goods – socialbites.ca) that are on the EU sanction list.
According to Georgy Vlastopulo, CEO of Optimal Logistics, we are talking about all goods that are not of local origin, that is, imported to Turkey, primarily the EU, USA and Canada. For Russian consumers, shipping issues may result in higher prices.
Market participants state that they are looking for ways to resolve the situation but prefer not to disclose it.
“Russia is accelerating trade – it’s a mess”
Against this background, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the West has developed a new strategy to prevent the growth of Russia’s foreign trade, to block all channels to circumvent sanctions against the Russian Federation.
“Now a new wave of hysteria has risen in the West, they say that Russia has increased its foreign trade even under these conditions, it is a mess.
And now they are developing a new strategy to block all kinds of channels to circumvent the sanctions,” he said.
At the same time, Lavrov claims that Russia has fulfilled all its obligations under the grain agreement, while the second part is allegedly not fulfilled.
Source: Gazeta
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