RESTRICTED  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
29 May 2001 
 (01-2686) 
Working Party on the 
Accession of the Russian Federation Original:   English 
 
 
  
ACCESSION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION 
Additional Information on Selected Areas of the 
 
Trade Policy Regime of the Russian Federation  
 
Note by the Russian Federation  
 Attached are Reference Papers 1-141 containing additional information on selected areas of 
the Trade Policy Regime of the Russian Federation. 
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CONTENTS PAGE 
 
 
Reference  Page 
Paper No.  Number 
 1. Laws, Regulations and Other Information Mentioned 
in the Overview of the Trade Policy Regime of the Russian Federation 
(document WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/20 refers) .......................................................................1 
 2. State Ownership and Privatization ......................................................................................6  3. Table 1:
   List of Goods and Services for Internal Consumption for which prices 
are regulated by the Government of the Russian Federation and 
Federation Executive Bodies ........................................................................13 
  Table 2:    List of Goods and Services for Internal Consumption for which prices 
are regulated by the Sub-Federal Executive Bodies .....................................14 
  Table 3:  List of Services for Internal Consumption for which the 
Sub-Federal Executives Bodies have the right to introduce regional regulations over prices (tariffs) and markups ...............................................15 
 4. Comprehensive List of Tariff Exemptions 
(based on the Law "On Customs Tariff")..........................................................................16 
 5. Consular Fees .............................................................................................................. ......19 
 6. Port Fees used in Commercial Seaports of the Russian Federation 
– Group Classification of Vessels .....................................................................................21 
 7. Value Added Tax............................................................................................................ ...28 
                                                     
 
1 Tables available in English only. WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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 8. Export Tariff of the Russian Federation (May 2001)........................................................32 
 9. Table 1: List of Goods Subject to Hygienic Assessment............................................39   Table 2: List of Socially Significant and Potentially Hazardous  
and Commodities Subject to Hygienic Assessment by the Department of State Sanitary and Epidemiological 
Supervision of the Ministry of Health of the 
Russian Federation........................................................................................39 
  Table 3: List of Types of Products and Commodities  
Subject to Hygienic Assessment...................................................................40 
  Table 4: Extract from the Price List for Services and Goods of the  
Center for Standardization and Certification of the  
Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation approved by  Order No. 1 of the Director of the Center for Standardization  and Certification of the Ministry of Health of Russia  of 9 January 2001..........................................................................................41 
 10. List of Goods Subject to State Veterinary Control............................................................42 
 11. List of Goods Subject to Quarantine and Phytosanitary Control ......................................55  12. Activities Subject to Licensing   Table 1: List of activities whose licensing is established by the  
Federal Law No. 158-FZ On Licensing of certain types of activities...........60 
  Table 2: List of activities whose licensing is established by federal laws  
which entered into force before  the entry into force of the 
Federal Law No. 158-FZ ............................................................................111  
  List of Activities Subject to Licensing stipulated in the  
Draft of the new Federal Law on Licensing....................................................................144 
 13. List of Goods Subject to Mandatory Certification by their 
release into the Customs Territory of the Russian Federation.........................................147 
 14.1 Payment for Certification of Products and Services Rules of 
Certification on Payment for Certifi cation of Products and Services..............................184 
 14.2 Payment for Services of  Veterinary Control ...................................................................198 
 14.3 List of Paid and Major Free Services provided by the Agencies of 
the State Service of Plant Quarantine of the Russian Federation ....................................205  WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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REFERENCE  PAPER  1  
 
Laws, Regulations and Other Information Mentioned  
in the Overview of The Trade Policy of the Russian Federation  
 
1. Constitution of the Russian Federation adopted on 12 December 1993; 
2. Federal Constitutional Law “O n Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation” of 
21 February 1994 No. 1-FKZ (as amended on 8 February 2001); 
3. Federal Constitutional Law “On State Arbitrati on Courts in the Russian Federation” of 
28 April 1995 No. 1-FKZ; 
4. Federal Constitutional Law “On Judicial System of the Russian Federati on” of 31 December 1996 
No. 1-FKZ; 
5. Federal Constitutional Law “On the Government of the Russian Federation” (as amended on 
31 December 1997) of 17 December 1997 No. 2-FKZ; 
6. Customs Code of the Russian Federation of  18 June 1993 No. 5221-1 (as amended on 19 June, 
December 1995, 21 July, 16 November 1997, 10 February 1999); 
7. Civil Code Part One 30 November 1994 No. 51-FZ and Part Two of 26 January 1996 No. 14-FZ 
(as amended on 20 February, 12 August 1996, 24  October 1998, 8 July, 17 December 1999); 
8. Tax Code Part One of 31July 1998 No. 146-FZ (as amended on 30 March, 9 September 1999, 
2 January 2000) and Part Two of 5 August 2000 No. 117-FZ (as amended on 29 December 2000);  
9. Fundamentals of the Legi slation of the Russian Federation "O n Health Protection" of 22 July 1993 
No. 5487-1 (as amended on 02 March 1998, 20 December 1999, 02 December 2000); 
10. Law of the Russian Federation “On Competiti on and Restriction of Monopoly Activity on 
Commodity Markets” of 22 March 1991 No. 948- 1 (as amended on 24 June 1992, 25 May 1995 
and 2 January 2000); 
11. Law of the Russian Federation "On Protection of the Natural Environment" of 19 December 1991 
No. 2060-1 (as amended on 21 February 1992, 02 June 1993, 27 December 2000);  
12. Law of the Russian Federation “On Copyrights and Related Rights of 9.July 1993” No.5351-1 FZ 
(as amended on 19 July 1995); 
13. Law of the Russian Federation ”On the Legal Pr otection of Layout Designs of Integrated 
Circuits” 23.September 1992 No.3526-1; 
14. Patent Law of the Russian Federation of  23 September 1992 No. 3517-1 (as amended on 
27 December 2000); 
15. Law of the Russian Federation “On the Legal Pr otection of Computer Programs and Databases” 
of 23.September 1992 No.3523-1; 
16. Law of the Russian Federation "On Veterinary" of 14 May 1993 No. 4979-1; WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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17. Law of the Russian Federation “On Customs Tari ff” of 21 May 1993 No. 5003-1 (as amended on 
7 August, 25 November, 27 December 1995, 5 Februa ry 1997, 10 February, 4 May 1999, 27 May, 
27 December 2000; 
18. Law of the Russian Federation "On Certificati on Of Products And Services" of 10 June 1993 
No. 5151-1 (as amended on 27 December 1995, 02 March 1998, 31 July 1998); 
19. Law of the Russian Federation “On Trademarks, Se rvice Marks, and Appellations of Origin” of 
23 September 1992 No. 3520 (as amended on 27 December 2000); 
20. Federal Law “On the procedure of  publication and entry into force of Federal Constitutional 
Laws, Federal Laws, statements of chambers of Federal Assembly” of 14 July 1994 No 5-FZ;  
21. the Federal Law "On purchases and deliveries of fa rm products, raw materials and foodstuffs to 
meet State needs"  of 2 December 1994 No. 53 FZ; 
22. Federal Law «On international treaties of the Ru ssian Federation» of 15 July 1995 No. 101 FZ; 
23. Federal Law “On State Regulation of Forei gn Trade Activity” (as amended on 8 July 1997, 
10 February 1999) of 13 October 1995 No. 157-FZ; 
24. Federal Law “On State Regulation of Production and Turnover of Ethyl Alcohol, Alcoholic and 
Alcohol-Containing Products” of 22 November  1995 No. 173-FZ (as amended  on 7 January  
1999); 
25. Federal Law “On Making Amendments and Supp lements to the Federal Law “On Consumers 
Rights Protection” and the Code of the RSFSR On Administrative Offences” of 9Lanuary 1996 
No 2-FZ (as amended on 17 December 1999); 
26. Federal Law "On The Special Economic Zone in  the Kaliningrad Region" of 22 January 1996 
No. 13-FZ (as amended on 27 December 2000); 
27. Federal Law “On the Privatization of the State Property and on Principles of Privatization of 
Municipal Property in the Russian Federati on” of 21 July 1997 No. 123-FZ (as amended on 
23 June 1999, 5 August 2000); 
28. Federal Law "On Production Sharing Agreement"  of 30 December 1997 No. 225-FZ (as amended 
on 7 January 1997); 
29. Federal Law “On MEASUREF OF Protection of the Economic Interests of the Russian 
Federation in Foreign Trade in Goods” of 14 April 1998 No. 63-FZ; 
30. Federal Law “On Introduction of Part One of th e Tax Code of the Russian Federation” of 
31 July 1998 No. 147-FZ (as amended on 9 July  1999, 5 August 2000, 24 March 2001); 
31. The Federal Law No. “On Co-ordination of Inte rnational and Foreign Economic Ties of the 
Subjects of the Russian Federation” of 2 December 1998 No.4-FZ; 
32. Federal Law “On Investment Activity in the Russian Federation in the Form of Capital 
investment” of 25 February 1999 No. 39-FZ (as amended on 2 January 2000); 
33. Federal Law “On tenders for the placement of or ders for the supply of goods, performance of 
works, provision of services for State needs” of 6 May 1999 No. 97-FZ;  WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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34. Federal Law “On The Special Economic Zone in the Magadan Region” of 31 May 1999 
No. 104-FZ (as amended on 31 December 1999, 27 December 2000); 
35. Federal Law “On Election of Deputies to the State Duma of the Russian federation” of 
21 June 1999 No. 121-FZ; 
36. Federal Law “On Foreign Investment in the Ru ssian Federation” of 9 July 1999 No. 160-FZ; 
37. The Federal Law “On Export Control” of 18 July 1999 No.183-FZ; 
38. Federal Law ”On  Protection of Competitio n in the Financial Services Market” of 
29 December 1999 No 117-FZ; 
39. Federal Law “On Introduction of Part Two of the Tax Code of  the Russian Federation” of 
5 August 2000 No 118-FZ (as amended on 27 December 2000, 24 March 2001); 
40. Federal Law “On the Order of Formation of the Council of the Federation of the Federal 
Assembly of the Russian Federation” of 5 August 2000 No. 113-FZ; 
41. Decree of the President “On Liberalization of Fo reign Economic Activity on the Territory of the 
Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic” of 15 November 1991 No. 213 (as amended on 
27 October 1992 was abolished by Decree of the President No. 2061 of 23  December 2000); 
42. State Programme of Privatization of State-Owned and Municipal Enterprises in the Russian 
Federation 1994 (approved by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation №2284 of 
24 December 1993) (as amended on 14 March 1996 , 6 October 1997, 15 July 1998, 25 July, 
1 August 2000); 
43. Basic Provisions of the State Programme of Privatization of State-Owned and Municipal 
Enterprises in the Russian Federation after 1 July  1994 (approved by the Decree of the President 
of the Russian Federation №1535 of 22 July 1994) (as amended on 16 April 1998, 
25 January 1999); 
44. Decree of the President “On Streamlining of State Registration of Enterprises and Entrepreneurs 
in the Territory of the Russian Federation” of 8 July 1994 No. 1482; 
45. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation “On measures to streamline the state regulation 
of prices (tariffs) of 28 February 1995 )” No. 221 (as amended on 8 July 1995); 
46. Decree of the President “On the procedure of publi cation and entry in force of statements of the 
President of the Russian Federation, Government of  the Russian Federation and legislative acts of 
the federal executive bodies” of 23 May 1996 No 763; 
47. Decree of the President “On the Order of Importa tion on the Territory of the Russian Federation 
and Exportation from the Territory of the Russian  Federation of Natura l Diamonds and Brilliants 
and Certain Questions of Functioning of the Internal Market of Raw Natural Diamonds” of 
20 July 1997 No.740; 
48. Resolution of the Russian Government “On Measu res to Improve the State Regulation of Import 
and Export of Products and Services” of 1 July 1994 No. 758; 
49. Resolution of the Government “On measures to str eamline the state regulation of prices (tariffs)” 
of 7March  1995 No. 239 (as amended on 8 Februa ry, 15 April, 31 July 1996, 30 June 1997, 
30 July, 28 December 1998, 6 February 2001); WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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50. Resolution of the Government of the Russi an Federation “On Complex Programme on 
Encouraging of the Foreign and Native  Investment s into Economy of the Russian Federation” of 
13 October 1995 No. 1016; 
51. Resolution  of the Government “On State Pr ogramme on Demonopolization of the Economy and 
Development of Competition in Markets of the Russian Federation” of 9 March 1996 No. 191 (as 
amended on 4 September 1995, 15 May 1998); 
52. Resolution  of the Government “On Abolition of Certain Decisions of the Government on 
Registration of Commodity Export Contracts” of 21 March 1996 No. 300; 
53. Resolution of the Government "On rules of conduc t of auctions and tenders on sale of quotas in 
cases of introduction of quantitative restrictions  and licensing of exported and imported goods 
(works and services) in the Russian Federati on" of 31 October 1996 No. 1299 (as amended on 
27 January 1997, 2 February, 14 March and 29 D ecember 1998, 12 October, 15 December 2000); 
54. Resolution of the  Government “On Establishing the Federal Agency for Food Market Regulation 
replaced the Federal Food Corporati on” of 26 September 1997 No. 1224; 
55. “On Commodity Nomenclature  Applied in Fore ign Economic Activity and On Customs Tariff of 
the Russian Federation” of 27 December 1996 No . 1560 (as amended on 23 April, 7 November, 
19 December 1997; 8 January, 21 February, 11, 22 May, 1 June, 13, 21 August, 5 September, 21 October, 30 December 1998; 18 January, 13, 24 February, 16 March, 28 June, 8,20,27 August, 
3 September, 14 November, 4, 9 December 1999; 22 February 2000); 
56. Resolution of the Government "On The Procedure For Ensuring That Products Imported Into the 
Russian Federation Contain Labe ls in the Russian Language" of 27 December 1996 No. 1575 (as 
amended on 14 July 1997); 
57. Resolution of the Government “On Approval of th e List of Products, Works and Services subject 
to Mandatory Certification” of 13 August 1998 (as amended 24 May 2000); 
58. Resolution of the Government “On Approval of the Temporary Regulation on the Order of the 
issue of the Values of the State Found of Preci ous Metals and Precious Stones of the Russian 
Federation” of 19 January 1998 No. 46;  
59. Resolution of the Government “On Determinati on of the Material Injury Resulting from  the 
Dumping Import) of 16 February 1999 No. 183; 
60. Resolution of the Government “On Determination of  the Material Injury to the Branch of the 
Russian Economy Resulting from Backing by the Foreign Country (Union of Countries) of the Goods Imported into the Russian Federa tion” of 16 February 1999 No 184; 
61. Resolution of the Government “On Procedure of Realization of the Investigation Preceding the 
Application of the Special Anti-Dumping and Protective Measures” of 11 March 1999 No. 274; 
62. Resolution of the Government “On Customs Tari ff the Code of Rates of the Import Customs 
Duties and HS applied in Foreign Economic  Activity” of 22 February 2000 No. 148 
(Amendments of  16 March, 8 April, 11 Ma y, 7,28 July, 3 August, 27 November 2000); 
63. Resolution of the Government “On Conditions of Anti-monopoly Control on Financial Services 
Market and Adoption of the Principles of Dete rmination of Transaction and Borders of the 
Financial Services” of 7 March 2000 No 994;   WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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64. Regulation of the Government "On The Procedure For Ensuring That Products Imported Into the 
Russian Federation Contain Labels in the Russi an Language" of 27 December 1996 No. 1575 (as 
amended on 14 July 1997); 
65. Hygienic Requirements for Video Display Units", "Personal Computers and Organization of Work", 
"Hygienic Requirements for Hand Tools and Organization of Work", "Sanitary Regulations for 
Distribution of Fishery Products",  "Sanitary Norms of Permissibl e Levels for Physical Factors 
During Use of Domestic Articles"; 
66. Order of Gossanepidnadzor "On hygi enic assessment of pr oduction, delivery, realization of products 
and goods" of 20 July 1998. WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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REFERENCE PAPER 2
 
 
State Ownership and Privatization  
 
 The accomplishing of tasks in the sphere of pr ivatization is based on the following principles: 
the principle of combination of long-term and short- term interests of the State during privatization;  
the principle of differentiated approach to priva tization of enterprises depending on their liquidity;  
principle of expanding privatization instruments,  principle of on-going monitoring and control. 
 
Legal framework  
 
 Basic legal documents according to which the privatization of state property in the Russian 
Federation  is currently taking place are the following:  the Federal Law On the privatization of the 
State property and on the Principles of Privatization of the Municipal Property in the Russian Federation №123-FZ of 21 July 1997 (as amended on 23 June 1999, 5 August 2000), the State 
Program of Privatization of State-Owned and Municipal Enterprises in the Russian Federation 1994 (approved by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation №2284 of 24 December 1993) (as 
amended on 14 March 1996, 6 October 1997, 15 July  1998, 25 July, 1 August 2000) and Basic 
Provisions of the State Program of Privatization of State-Owned and Municipal Enterprises in the 
Russian Federation after 1 July 1994 (approved by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation №1535 of 22 July 1994) (as amended on 16 April 1998, 25 January 1999). 
  The Government of the Russian Federation a nnually, simultaneously with the draft federal 
law on the federal budget for the respective year, subm its to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly 
of the Russian Federation the draft federal law on the introduction of amendments and addenda into 
the Privatization Program.   The Government of the Russian Federation a nnually, before April 1 of the current year, 
submits to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation a report on the implementation of the 
Privatization Program in the course of the past year. 
 
 The Privatization Program contains: 
 
- a forecast of the privatization of the state pr operty in the respective sectors of the Russian 
Federation economy; 
- a forecast of an increase in the internal and the external investments into the Russian 
Federation economy as a result of the privatization of the state property; 
- demands, made on the privatization programmes of  the subjects of the Russian Federation;  
- the order of selecting methods for the privatization of the state property ; 
- the procedure for estimating the cost of the privatized state property;  
- the procedure and the normatives for the distribution of the monetary means, derived as a 
result of privatization of the federal property etc. 
 
 Moreover the facilities and enterprises that are federal, state-owned and municipal property 
are divided into the following groups as regards the possibility of their privatization in the 
Privatization Program:  
 
- facilities and enterprises that are federal property,  the privatization of which is prohibited; 
- facilities and enterprises that are federal property,  the privatization of which is subject to 
approval by the Government of the Russian Federation; 
- facilities and enterprises that are federal property,  the privatization of which is subject to 
approval by the federal executive power bod y, possessing the powers for performing the 
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federal executive power bodies, endowed with  the powers for the coordination and the 
regulation of the activity in the respective sectors of the economy; 
- state-owned (municipal) facilities and enterp rises, the privatization of which under the 
Programme is subject to approval by the gove rnment authorities and administration bodies of 
the subjects of the Russian Federation and under local privatization programs; 
- federal, state-owned (municipal) facilities, and enterprises subject to compulsory 
privatization;  
- facilities and enterprises which  are privatized with the prohibition or restrictions of the 
participation in its privatization of  foreign natural and legal persons. 
 
 In the course of bringing into life the program decisions  the federal laws and the other legal 
normative acts of the Russian Federation, the laws and the other legal normative acts of the subjects 
of the Russian Federation, as well as the decisions of the local self-government bodies  are being 
passed, which shall not contradict the main Fede ral Law on privatization and the Privatization 
Programme. 
 
The terms of participation of foreign legal and physical bodies in the process of privatization  
 
 Terms of participation of foreign legal a nd physical bodies in privatization process and 
investment activities are regulated by Federal Law On  the privatization of the State property and on 
the Principles of Privatization of the Muni cipal Property in the Russian Federation №123-FZ of 21 
July 1997, by Federal Law On Foreign Investment in the Russian Federation №160-FZ of 9 July 1999 
and by the State Programme of Privatization of  State-Owned and Municipal Enterprises in the 
Russian Federation 1994 (Approved by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation №2284 
of 24 December 1993).  
 
 Concerning foreign participation in privatiza tion acts national treatment. Foreign investors 
can take part in an auction, tender and commercia l tender with the investment and (or) the social 
terms.   Foreign investors' participation in the priv atization of facilities and enterprises engaged in 
trade, public catering and consumer services, as well as of small enterprises in industry, construction, 
and automobile transportation are in all cases subj ect to approval by local government authorities. 
  Decisions on the possibility of foreign investor s' taking part in the privatization of facilities 
and enterprises of the defence industry (if the defe nce order accounts for more than 30 per cent of 
their gross output), the oil and gas industry, th e mining and processing of strategic material ores, 
precious and semi-precious stones, precious metals, radioactive and rare-earth minerals, transport and 
communications are made by the Government of th e Russian Federation or authorities of subjects of 
the Russian Federation as applicable (depe nding on the kind of state property involved) 
simultaneously with a decision on privati zation of such facilities and enterprises.  
 
 Foreign investments cannot be used for privati zation of state-owned and municipal enterprises 
located within closed territorial entities, if not otherwise provided for by decrees of the Government 
of the Russian Federation.  
Results of privatization
 
 
 As a result of restructuring of property re lations in the Russian Federation by means of 
privatization the number of privatized enterprises as of January 1 , 2001 (from 1992) comprised 
130,180.   
 The table below shows data on number of privatized State-Owned and Municipal Enterprises:  
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Table 1. Progress in Privatization of State Enterprises within 1993-2000
 
 
Year 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 
Number of privatized 
state-owned and 
municipal enterprises 42,924 21,905 10,152 4,997 3,353 2,694 677 301*
Including those by the form of property 
Municipal … 11,108 6,960 3,354 1,462 1,251 453 200*
Subjects of the 
Russian Federation … 5,112 1,317 715 340 503 44 74*
Federal … 5,685 1,875 928 1,651 940 180 27*
*preliminary information 
 
 In 2000 much fewer enterprises were privati zed compared to 1999. The similar trend was 
observed in 1999 compared to 1998. The steady decr ease in the number of privatized enterprises is 
explained by the fact  that privatization of the major number of the enterprises, including  enterprises 
in oil industry, metallurgy, sea and river transport, which are the most attractive for investors has been 
already completed.   At the same time there is a tendency of increasing the total volume of financial assets 
obtained by means of privatization. In 2000 revenu es from the sale of shares packages of joint-stock 
companies and state property  comprised 31,367.6 mln. rubles. 
 
 The increase in revenues by means of privatizati on is explained to a great extent by the usage 
of a new conception of state property management (approved by the Decision of the Government of 
the Russian Federation №1024 of 9 September 1999). The Concep tion determines new policy, which 
includes the individual approach to the choice of  objects of privatization, presale evaluation of 
property, control of the effectiveness of management of state property. 
 
 The sector structure of privatization is shown in the table 2 below: 
 
Table 2. Progress in Privatization of State-Owned and Municipal Enterprises
 
concerning specific areas of activity for a p eriod of time up to the first half of 2000  
 
Area of activity 1993-first half of 2000 
Industry  
- electric energy 21,703 
182 
Agricultural Sector 1,813 
Transport  
- railway  
- auto road  - pipeline  - maritime transport - internal waterways  
- air transport  
- loading, unloading and expeditious services 3,196 
57 
2,506 
5 
41 95 
65 
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Area of activity 1993-first half of 2000 
Communications  
Construction  
Wholesale trade Retail  trade Public catering Housing and related services  
Services to the population  
Health care and other types of social care  Public education  Culture and art  Science  Other areas of economy 189 
8,066 
1,574 
24,973 
5,084 2,660 
1,870 
314 242 292 639 
14,690 
Total 87,305 
 
 At present there are 22135 state-run unitary enterprises in the Russian Federation, including 
11,128 Federal  state-run unitary enterprises. The number of commercial companies with the 
participation share of federal state property compri ses 3524, in that number according to the share of 
federal property in their authorized capital:  
- 100% of authorized capital - 61 joint-stock company;  
- more than 50 % of authorized capital - 506; 
- from 25 % to 50 % of authorized capital – 1,211; 
- less than 25 % - 1,746. 
 
Methods of privatization
 
 
 The following privatization methods, specified by  the Federal Law On the privatization of the 
State property and on the Principles of Privatization of the Municipal Property in the Russian Federation №123-FZ of 21 July 1997 , are used in the privatization of the state and of the municipal 
property:  
- the sale of the state or of the municipal property at an auction, including the sale of the shares 
of open joint-stock companies, created in the cour se of privatization, at a specialized auction; 
- the sale of the state or of the municipal property at a commercial tender with the investment 
and (or) the social terms; 
- the sale of the shares of open joint-stock compani es, set up in the course of privatization, to 
their own workers; 
- the redemption of the rented state or municipa l property; the transformation of the state and 
the municipal enterprises into the open joint- stock companies, 100 per cent of whose shares 
are in the state or in the municipal ownership; 
- putting the state or the municipal property by wa y of contribution into the authorized capitals 
of economic companies; 
- the alienation of the shares of open joint- stock companies, set up in the course of 
privatization, which are in the state or in the municipal ownership, in favour of the owners of 
the state or of the municipal securities, cer tifying the right to acquire such shares. 
 
 A specific method of privatization of an enterp rise is determined by a working privatization 
commission. When selecting methods of privatization of enterprises a differentiated approach is used 
depending on their liquidity and specifics.  
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 Auction and commercial tender with the invest ment and (or) the social terms are the main 
methods of selling state property in the course of pr ivatization. For instance, in 2000 56% of state 
property of Russian Federation subjects were sold through auctions.  
Table 3. Figures on methods of privatization of Federal property in 2000
 
 
Number of shares packages of Fede ral property enterprises sold 320 
On auction 248 
On particularized auction 13 
On tender 32 
In other ways 27 
 
Goals in the sphere of privatization  
 
 The potential "portfolio" of the shares pack ages, planned for sale, includes shares of the 
number of oil and coal companies, transport and communication enterprises, and engineering 
industry. It is planned to perform restructuring an d privatization of about 3.5 thousand Federal state 
unitary enterprises in 2001; it is planned to sell shares of over 500 joint-stock companies in 2001. 
  Additional information about the objects, wh ich privatization is possible in 2001-2003 is 
available in the Internet at the official site of  Russia's Ministry of State Property (www.mgi.ru), as 
well as at the homepage of the All-Russia Bank). 
 
Production of Goods and Services by State-Owned Enterprises
 
 
 In accordance with the Decision of the Gove rnment of the Russian Federation No.1 of 
4.January 1999,  the state owned enterprises are st ate organizations, institutions, unitary enterprises, 
as well as companies and enterprises which either fully  belong to the state or where the state owns 
controlling (over 50 percent) interests (shares). 
 
 At present enterprises with state property shar e in Russia are responsible for 14% of the total 
production of goods and services. The minimum share of st ate participation is in retail trade (Table 4). 
Full State monopoly remains in the sector of railroad tran sport. In the sphere of scientific research and 
development the share of public sector enterprises comprises 63,3%  
 
 The number of staff of public sector ente rprises in 2000 was 11,373.6 thousand people, or 
22.6% of the employed population.  
 In 2000 foreign investments to  the public sector enterprises c onstituted over 16 mln. dollars, 
while general volume of foreign investments into  Russian economy constituted 11 billion dollars. 
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Table 4. Volume of Production of Goods and Services,  
produced by State-Owned Enterprises in specific areas in 2000  
 
2000  
Share of production by state enterprises in 
total volume of production (goods and 
services), produced in a sector of 
economy, % 
Industry 10.1 
Agriculture 13.6 
Communication services  14.9 
Construction 10.6 
Retail trade 2.3 
Catering 10.0 
Services, offered to the population 16.0 
 In that number:  
Services of passenger transport 40.4 
Communication services 7.7 
Consumer services 2.4 
Culture services 1.7 
Health services 4.1 
Education services 13.6 
 
 
Table 5. Volume of Industrial Production, produced by  
State-Owned Enterprises in specific areas in 2000  
  
2000  
Share of production by state enterprises in 
total volume of industrial production, 
produced in a sector of industry, % 
Industry 10.1 
Including:  
      Electric energy 9.3 
      Fuel 3.9 
      Ferrous metallurgy 2.6 
      Non-ferrous metallurgy 15.6 
      Chemical and petrochemical 8.0 
      Machine-building and metal-working 20.9 
      Timber, woodworking, pulp and paper  5.2 
      Building materials    4.3 
      Glass  1.7 
      Light industry 4.9 
      Food industry 6.6 
      Microbiological 40.1 
      Flour-and-cereal s and feed mill 12.3 
      Medical 15.8 
      Printing 52.5 
 
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Table 6. Most important types of agricultural products produced by 
 
State-Owned Enterprises in specific areas in 2000  
 
Products Share of production by state enterprises in 
total volume of production by agriculture 
enterprises, % 
Grain 6.9 
Sugar beet (factory) 4.1 
Oil-bearing crops 4.2 
    Including sunflower 3.6 
Potatoes 11.8 
Vegetables 13.6 
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REFERENCE  PAPER  3  
 
Table 1:  List of Goods and Services for Internal Consumption  
for which prices are regulated by the G overnment of the Russian Federation  
and Federal Executive Bodies  
 
 
HS code/ 
CPC Description of goods and services Regulating body 
271121 Natural gas (excluding as sold to the population) The Federal Energy Commission 
271111 
271129 
 Accompanying oil gas and stripped dry gas ∗, 
casing-head gas (sold to gas processing plants 
for further processing), liquefied gas for 
household needs (excluding as sold to the 
population) The Ministry of Economic Development and 
Trade of the Russian Federation on agreement 
with the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry 
of Finance of the Russian Federation 
2844 Nuclear fuel cycle products The Mi nistry of Nuclear Power of the Russian 
Federation 
271600 Electric power and heat po wer The Federal Energy Commission 
9301-9307 
871000 Products for defence purposes The Ministry of Economic Development and 
Trade of the Russian Federation 
7101- 7103 
 Raw diamonds and precious stones The Ministry of Finance of the Russian 
Federation on agreement with the Ministry of 
Economic Development and Trade of the 
Russian Federation 
9021 Prosthetic and orthopaedic appliances The Ministry of Economic Development and 
Trade of the Russian Federation on 
submission of the Ministry of Labour and 
Social Development an d the Ministry of 
Finance of the Russian Federation  
2208 Vodka, liquor products and other alcohol 
products stronger than 28 proof, produced in the 
territory of the Russian Federation or imported into the customs territory of the Russian 
Federation. The Ministry of Economic Development and 
Trade of the Russian Federation on 
submission of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation 
7131 Transportation of crude oil and oil derivatives 
by trunk pipelines The Federal Energy Commission 
7112 
741 Transportation of cargoes, railway loading and 
unloading operations The Ministry for Anti-Monopoly Policy and 
Support of Entrepreneurship of the Russian Federation. 
71111 
7112 Transportation of passengers, baggage, cargoes 
and mail by railway transport (except suburban 
traffic) The Ministry for Anti-Monopoly Policy and 
Support of Entrepreneurship of the Russian 
Federation. 
741 Loading and unloading operations in ports, port 
duties The Ministry for Anti-Monopoly Policy and 
Support of Entrepreneurship of the Russian Federation on submission of the Ministry of 
Transport of the Russian Federation 
745 Charges for passage through internal waterways 
by vessels flying foreign flags The Ministry of Transport of the Russian 
Federation on agreement with The Ministry of 
Finance of the Russian Federation 
74610 
74110 
74190 Aircraft, passengers and cargoes services in 
airports The Ministry for Anti-Monopoly Policy and 
Support of Entrepreneurship of the Russian 
Federation. 
                                                      
∗ excluding the gas sold by the gas producer organizations not being affiliated to the Russian Joint-Stock 
Company Gazprom, the joint- stock companies Yakutgazprom, Norilskgazprom and Rosneft-
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HS code/ 
CPC Description of goods and services Regulating body 
74590 Ice-breaking fleet service The Ministry of Economic Development and 
Trade of the Russian Federation on 
submission of the Ministry of Transport of the 
Russian Federation and on agreement with the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation  
74620 Aeronavigation services of aircraft The Ministry of Transport of the Russian 
Federation (the Federal Aviation Service) 
7511 752 
7524 Certain postal and electronic communication 
services, communication services in respect of 
broadcasting of programmes of Russian state TV and radio organizations The Ministry for Anti-Monopoly Policy and 
Support of Entrepreneurship of the Russian 
Federation. 
75111 
75112 Domestic postal items: letters, post cards, 
parcels (only for State Post office) The Ministry for Anti-Monopoly Policy and 
Support of Entrepreneurship of the Russian 
Federation. 
7522 75232 Domestic telegram (only for State Post office) The Ministry for Anti-Monopoly Policy and 
Support of Entrepreneurship of the Russian 
Federation. 
75212 Provision of a long-distance telephone link 
(connection) through an automatic or manually 
operated switchboard irrespective of a type device used by subscribers The Ministry for Anti-Monopoly Policy and 
Support of Entrepreneurship of the Russian 
Federation. 
7541 Provision of trunk telegraph and telephone 
communications channels to organizations 
funded by corresponding budgets The Ministry for Anti-Monopoly Policy and 
Support of Entrepreneurship of the Russian 
Federation. 
7524 Distribution and broadcasting of All-Russia 
television and radio programs The Ministry for Anti-Monopoly Policy and 
Support of Entrepreneurship of the Russian 
Federation. 
7521 Provision of access to the telephone network 
irrespective of the type of lines employed by 
subscribers (wire or wireless lines) The Ministry for Anti-Monopoly Policy and 
Support of Entrepreneurship of the Russian 
Federation. 
75211 Provision of a local telephone link (connection) The Ministry for Anti-Monopoly Policy and 
Support of Entrepreneurship of the Russian 
Federation. 
 
 
Table 2: List of Goods and Services for Internal Consumption  
for which prices are regulated by the G overnment of the Russian Federation  
and Sub-Federal Executive Bodies  
 
HS code/ 
CPC Description of goods and services Regulating body 
271112 Natural gas distributed to the population and 
building cooperative societies The Executive Bodies of the Subjects of the 
Russian Federation 
271111 Liquefied gas distributed to the population for 
household purposes (except gas to refuel motor 
vehicles) The Executive Bodies of the Subjects of the 
Russian Federation 
271600 Electric power and heat power  Regional Power Commissions on agreement 
with the Federal Energy Commission 
2701 
2704 Solid fuel, furnace fuel for household use and 
kerosene distributed to the population The Executive Bodies of the Subjects of the 
Russian Federation 
3001- 3006 Mercantile markups on prices for medicines and 
goods of medical designation The Executive Bodies of the Subjects of the 
Russian Federation 
931 
933 Social services supplied to the population of the 
Russian Federation The Executive Bodies of the Subjects of the 
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HS code/ 
CPC Description of goods and services Regulating body 
931 
933 Social services guaran teed by the State and 
supplied to elderly citizens and invalids of the 
Russian Federation The Executive Bodies of the Subjects of the 
Russian Federation 
71211 Transportation of passengers and baggage by all 
types of public transport, including urban, 
subway and suburban transport (except railway 
transport) The Executive Bodies of the Subjects of the 
Russian Federation 
9703 Funeral services The Executiv e Bodies of the Subjects of the 
Russian Federation 
9401 
18000 Water supply and sewage systems services The Executive Bodies of the Subjects of the 
Russian Federation 
82101 82201 Payments for public utilities by the population The Executive Bodies of the Subjects of the 
Russian Federation 
 
 
Table 3: List of Services for Internal Consumption  
for which the Sub-Federal Executive Bodies have the right to introduce  
regional regulations over prices (tariffs) and markups  
 
CPC Description of goods and services Regulating body 
622 Marketing and mercantile markups on prices for 
products and commodities distributed in the Far 
North areas or territories of  equivalent status with 
limited cargo delivery periods The Executive Bodies of  the Subjects of the 
Russian Federation 
6310 642 Markups for products (commodities), distributed 
to public catering enterprises affiliated with 
secondary schools, vocational schools, secondary specialized and higher educational institutions The Executive Bodies of  the Subjects of the 
Russian Federation 
6222 Mercantile markups for baby food (including food 
concentrates) The Executive Bodies of  the Subjects of the 
Russian Federation 
71112 Transportation of passengers and baggage by 
suburban railway transport (upon agreement with 
the Ministry of Railways of the Russian Federation), and provided that the losses resulting 
from tariff regulation are reimbursed from the 
respective budget of the subjects of the Russian 
Federation The Executive Bodies of  the Subjects of the 
Russian Federation on agreement with the 
Ministry of Railway Transport of the Russian Federation 
71213 
71221 Transportation of passengers and baggage by 
motor transport along in tra-regional and inter-
regional routes (inter-republican routes within the Russian Federation), including taxi The Executive Bodies of  the Subjects of the 
Russian Federation 
731 7221 Local transportation of passengers and baggage 
by local airlines and river transport The Executive Bodies of  the Subjects of the 
Russian Federation 
7211 7212 
7221 
7222 
731 732 Transportation of cargoes, passengers and 
baggage by sea, river and air transport in the Far 
North areas and the territori es of equivalent status The Executive Bodies of  the Subjects of the 
Russian Federation 
7113 
741 Services rendered by enterprises of the industrial 
railway transport on branch lines. The Executive Bodies of  the Subjects of the 
Russian Federation 
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REFERENCE  PAPER  4
 
 
Comprehensive List of Tariff exemptions (based on the Law “On Customs Tariff”)  
 
Article 34.  Tariff Preferences 
 
Tariff benefits (preferences) fo r goods shall be established hereunde r and may not be individual in 
nature other than in such cases as are described by Articles 35 , 36 and 37  of this Law. Tariff 
preferences shall be granted exclusively by decision of the Russian Government. 
 
A tariff benefit (preference) shall be understood to mean a benefit gr anted on the basis of reciprocity 
or unilaterally in implementing Russia's comme rcial polices on goods moved across the Russian 
customs border in the form of a refund  of earlier paid duties, exemption from duties, reduced duties or 
tariff quotas on preferential imports (exports) of goods. 
 
Article 35.  Exemption from Duties 
 The following shall be exempt from duties:  a) transport vehicles engaged in the interna tional transportation of freight, luggage and 
passengers, as well as materials, equipment, riggi ng, fuel, food and other effects required for 
their normal operation en route or during stopove rs, or acquired abroad in connection with a 
breakdown of (damage to) such vehicles; 
 b)  material, equipment, rigging, fuel, food and other effects exported outside the Russian 
customs territory to support the operations of Russian ships engaged in  sea fisheries or sea 
fishery ships leased (chartered) by Russian pers ons, as well as the products of such operations 
imported into the Russian customs territory; 
 c)  goods imported to the Russian customs territory or exported there from for official or 
personal uses by representatives of foreign States or individuals entitled to  import such goods 
duty-free pursuant to Russia's internationa l agreements or Russian legislation; 
 
d)  Russian and foreign currency other than that used for numismatic purposes, as well as 
securities pursuant to Russian legislative acts; 
 e)  goods subject to nationalization by the Stat e in cases envisaged by Russian legislation; 
 
Decision
 of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 816 of 18 July 1996 established that 
concessions on payment of tax duties as regards goods imported to the customs territory of the Russian Federation as humanitarian aid shall not  cover excisable goods, as well as goods imported 
under foreign trade agreements (contracts) the latte r providing that Russian persons are to pay for 
these goods  
 
f)  goods imported to the Russian customs territory  and exported there from as humanitarian aid; 
or in order to deal with the effect of accide nts, disasters and natural calamities; study aides for 
free educational, pre-school and medical treatment institutions; 
 
g)  goods imported to the customs territory of the Russian Federation as gratuitous aid 
(assistance) as well as imported to the territory and/or exported from the territory for charitable purposes along the lines of states, international organizations, governments 
including among other things for the purposes of providing technical aid (assistance); 
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h)  goods moved under customs control in transit across the Russian customs territory and meant 
for third countries; 
 i)  goods moved across the Russian customs borde r by natural persons for personal use pursuant 
to the Customs Code of the Russian Federation; 
 
j)  equipment, instruments and materials imported on the customs territory of the Russian 
Federation for implementation of the purpose oriented social and economic programs (projects) of the housing construction for servicemen, foundation, construction and 
maintenance of the centers for vocational retr aining of the servicemen, ex-servicemen and 
their family members carried out for the expense of loans, credits and gratuitous financial aid 
being provided by the international agencies a nd governments of foreign states, foreign legal 
entities and natural persons in accordance with Inter-Governmental and Inter-State 
Agreements, as well as Agreements signed on be half of the Government of the Russian 
Federation by the state executive bodies authorized by it; 
 
k)  periodical printed publications and book pr oducts connected with education, science and 
culture, imported by the editorial offices of the mass media and the publishing houses into the 
customs territory of the Russian Federation and exported therefrom; 
 
- paper, polygraphic materials and polygraphi c carriers, carriers of audio and video 
information, technological and engineering e quipment imported into the customs territory 
of the Russian Federation by the editorial offices of the mass media, publishing houses, 
information agencies, tele- and radio broad casting companies, polygraphic enterprises 
and organizations and used by them for the output of the products of the mass media and 
the book products connected with education, science and culture. 
 
 The privileges stipulated by the present item shall not apply to the books and periodical 
printed publications of advertis ing and erotic character and the mass media of advertising and 
erotic character; 
 l)  the fire-technical products, imported into the customs territory of the Russian Federation to 
ensure the operation of the administrative bodi es and units of the State Fire-fighting Service 
of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ru ssian Federation in the process of performance of 
their functions, established by the legislation of the Russian Federation; 
 m)  equipment, including machinery, mechanisms and materials being part of the set of delivery 
of respective equipment as well as components (e xcluding the ones subject to excise taxation) 
imported to the customs territory of the Russi an Federation to offset the loans provided by 
foreign states and international financial organi zations under the international treaties of the 
Russian Federation: 
 n)  goods imported to the customs territory of the Russian Federation, including those imported 
on leasing in order to perform works under a production sharing agreement in accordance 
with a program of such works and with the investor's budget approved in the manner set out 
in the agreement or those exported from the territo ry in question in keeping with the terms of 
such agreement. In such case import and expor t customs duties shall be replaced with the 
division of the products pursuant to terms of  a production sharing agreement concluded in 
accordance with the Federal Law
 on Production Sharing Agreements. 
  Exemption from the customs duty shall be gr anted only in the cases as provided in the 
international treaties of the Russian Federation; 
 
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o)  baby food manufacturing equipment (compone nts and spare parts for it) acquired at the 
expense of earmarked federal budget funds , the equipment being of the kind not 
manufactured in the Russian Federation, as per the list endorsed by the Government of the 
Russian Federation as well as baby food ma nufacturing equipment (components and spare 
parts for it) acquired at the expense of stri nged foreign credits extended to the Russian 
Federation by foreign states of foreign governme nts. The said privilege covers the baby food 
manufacturing equipment (components and spare parts for it) that has been imported (being imported) to the customs territory of the Ru ssian Federation for the purpose of implementing 
the federal target program "D eveloping Baby Food Industry" of the presidential program
 "The 
Children of Russia". 
 
Article 36.  Granting of Customs Preferences 
 In Russia's trade and political relations with fo reign countries Russian Customs Tariff preferences 
may be granted in the form of exemption from dut ies, reduced duties or tariff quotas on preferential 
imports (exports) with respect to the following goods: 
 
- goods originating from countries, which form a free trade zone or a customs union with 
Russia or which have signed agreements ai ming to create such zone or union; and 
- goods originating from developing countries and using Russia's national system of 
preferences, which shall be periodically, but at least once in five years, reviewed by the 
Russian Government. 
 
Article 37.  Granting of Tariff Benefits 
 In Russia's commercial policies followe d in its customs territory tariff benefits may be granted in the 
form of a refund
 of earlier-paid duties, cut-rate duties, or  in exceptional cases, exemption from duties 
with respect to the following goods:  
- goods imported to the Russian territory and/or exported therefrom temporarily under customs 
control under the appropriate customs arrangeme nts established by the Customs Code of the 
Russian Federation; 
- goods exported as part of complete deliveries for the construction of investment cooperation 
projects abroad pursuant to in tergovernmental agreements, to which Russia is a party; 
- goods exported from the Russian cu stoms territory as part of supp liers to meet federal state 
needs, as determined pursuant to Russian legislative acts. 
 
Goods imported to the Russian customs territory as a contribution to the statutory funds of enterprises 
with foreign investment and of foreign companies, as well as individual kinds  of goods of their own 
production imported by such enterprises and compani es in cases envisaged by agreements on division 
of output, concluded by the Russian Government or  a state agency authori zed thereby in accordance 
with Russian law, or during the period of rec ouping foreign investments in accordance with such 
procedure as is established by the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation. 
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REFERENCE  PAPER  5  
 
Consular Fees  
 
Rates applied 
CIS countries and Baltic countries Other countries No. Documents and acts, for which 
consular fees are collected 
US$ US$ 
1.  Fees for certification and 
notarization of documents  For certification of each document  
2.   3 30 
3.   Power of attorney notarization  
4.   For power of attorney authorizing the use and command of property, 
including motor vehicles, as well as carrying out the lending operations:  
5.   6 60 
6.   For confirming other powers claimed by an individual   
7.   2 20 
8.   For notarization of: 
9.   agreements subject to evaluation:  
10.   5 % of the amount specified in the 
agreement, but no less than 1 US 
dollar.  5 % of the amount specified in the 
agreement, but no less than 10 US$.  
11.   For authentication of signature:  
12.   1 10 
13.   For authentication of copies of instruments and extracts from instruments  
14.   1.5 15 
15.    For authentication of photostats:  
16.    6 
17.   For issuing the extracts from, or copies of, instruments kept in the files of 
consular offices (for one page)  
18.   1.5 15 
19.   If less than one page of text of an 
extract from, or a copy of, 
instrument is issued, the collected 
fee shall correspond to the same for 
a full page.  Minimum fee for this act: 
20.    30 
21.   For making an executive inscription  
22.   2% of the collected amount, but no 
less than  0.5 US$. 2% of the collected amount, but no 
less than 5 US$.  
23.   For processing 
the documents 
certifying the 
fact of 
purchasing the 
motor vehicles 
or motocycles 1% of value of 
the given 
transport facility 
assessed by 
mercantile 
business,  but no 
less than 10 
US$.  Translation with simultaneous 
notarization of its correctness for 
each page: 
24.     For translations 
from foreign 
languages into 
Russian 20 
25.     For translations 
from Russian 
into foreign 
languages 35 
26.     For certification 
of correctness of 
a translation 
made without 
participation of 
consular office 
for each page 15 WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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Rates applied 
CIS countries and Baltic countries Other countries No. Documents and acts, for which 
consular fees are collected 
US$ US$ 
27.     For typing the 
documents 5 
28.  Consulage for consular service of 
sea- and air-craft Executing the 
protest by 
master 5 Executing the 
protest by 
master 50 
29.   Issuing the 
certificate of 
loading or 
unloading 
operations with 
a vessel flying a 
foreign flag, as 
well as 
certifying other 
shipping documents 10 Issuing the 
certificate of 
loading or 
unloading 
operations with 
a vessel flying a 
foreign flag, as 
well as 
certifying other 
shipping documents 100 
30.   Issuing the 
temporary 
certificate 
confirming the 
right to fly a flag 
of the Russian 
Federation or 
ownership of 
vessel 15 Issuing the 
temporary 
certificate 
confirming the 
right to fly a flag 
of the Russian 
Federation or 
ownership of 
vessel 150 
31.   Prolongation of 
the term of 
validity of vessel 
documents and 
processing the 
logbooks 3 Prolongation of 
the term of 
validity of vessel 
documents and 
processing the 
logbooks 30 
32.   Notarization of 
various 
certificates and 
applications; 
issuing the cargo 
certificate; 
adding crew 
members to a 
crew list, or 
removing them 
from it 3 Notarization of 
various 
certificates and 
applications; 
issuing the cargo 
certificate; 
adding crew 
members to a 
crew list, or 
removing them 
from it 30 
33.   Gluing the 
additional sheets 
in crew list or 
logbook 2 Gluing the 
additional sheets 
in crew list or 
logbook 20 
34.   Notarization of 
sanitary 
certificate 3 Notarization of 
sanitary 
certificate 30 
35.   Executing a 
protocol of 
salvaging the 
wrecked or 
stolen vessel 2.5 Executing a 
protocol of 
salvaging the 
wrecked or 
stolen vessel 25 
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REFERENCE  PAPER  6  
 
Port Fees used in Commercial Seaports of the Russian Federation  
Group Classification of Vessels  
 
Group of 
vessels Vessels and floating facilities 
A Foreign-going cargo vessels and facilities,  including non-self propelled ones.  
B Coastal-traffic cargo vesse ls and facilities, including non-self propelled ones. 
C Foreign-going inter-port ferries. Foreign-going passenger ships.  
D Coastal-traffic inter-port ferries. Coastal-traf fic passenger ships. Ice breakers not operated day-to-
day or rented by port sea administration (or seaport administration). 
E Lighters on board the lighter-aboard ship; warships; hospital ships; sports vessels; private yachts; 
technical vessels used for deepening works in po rts; vessels of local port fleet, shipyards or 
ASPTR/LRN; ice breakers operat ed day-to-day by port sea administration (or seaport 
administration) and not rented by them.  
F Transit vessels; vessels touching at a port forcedly, for damage repairs, quarantine needs or 
custom house and frontier formalities, as well as  the vessels undergoing performance trial.  
G Service vessels; research ships; surveying vessels.  
H Fishing and other vessels of a fish industry department.  
 
 The tariff was set for Russian coastal-traffi c vessels, Russian foreign-going vessels and 
foreign vessels.   
 For the Russian foreign-going vessels and fore ign vessels the rates of dues are set in US 
dollars. The Russian vessels shall make payments in  rubles at the exchange rate of the Central Bank 
of Russia as of the day of the vessel’s departure.   The currency used for settling the charges collected from ves sels of CIS countries shall be 
regulated by interstate agreements.   
  Tariff surcharges and relieves shall be applied to  basic rate. If several relieves are applicable 
to a vessel, the greatest of these relieves shall be applied.     School, field-study and training ships shall be exempted from all types of charges. 
During charges collecting, vessel nationality and grante d status shall be determined by the flag the 
vessel is flying, irrespective of the entity, which owns or uses it (see Article 5 of Open Sea Convention dated 29.04.58).    A voyage of a Russian ship shall be consider ed as foreign-going, if the vessel arrives to a 
Russian port after load handling in a foreign por t or gets under way to a foreign port for load 
handling.   For voyages not covered by this definition, charges shall be collected in accordance with 
coastal traffic tariff.  The charges shall be collected  for the voyage, which is ended with vessel arrival 
to the port.  
  For vessels arriving to the port in ballast, charg es shall be collected for the voyage, which is 
the aim of this arrival. For vessels sailing from the port in ballast, charges shall be collected for the 
voyage, which is ended with vessel arrival to the port.  
 Conventional capacity of a vessel, in cubic mete rs, shall be determined as a product of three 
values specified in vessel documents: maximum le ngth of the vessel, maximum width of the vessel 
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  For vessels transporting cargo on the upper deck or having no less than two decks, the board 
height used in calculations shall be no less than a half of maximum width of the vessel.   Conventional capacity of barge-towboat trains , caravans or other floating facilities composed 
of individual elements used for calculating all typ es of charges, except for ecological dues, shall be 
determined as a sum of capacities of individual elements.   Charges from lighter-aboard ships carrying out ha ndling operations with lighters in the outer 
and inner harbour shall be collected in accordance with capacity of lighters handed over by a lighter-
aboard ship on entering the port and received by it on sailing out of the port. 
  For calculating all types of charges, conven tional capacity of Ro-Ro, Lo-Ro, Ro-Flow and 
OBO vessels, as well as container carriers, shall be  multiplied by a factor of 0.7. For calculating all 
types of charges, capacity of double-bottomed or double-boarded tankers, as well as tankers with 
isolating ballast tanks, shall be multiplied by a factor of 0.85. 
  Type and specialization of a vessel sha ll be determined based on vessel documents. 
   Charges shall be paid by a vessel prior to sailing from port.   
Order of Charge Collecting Tariff 
Port US$ Port US$ 
1. Tonnage  
Shall be collected for 1 cubic meter of vessel conventional capacity, separa tely for each fetching into the 
port and sailing from it.  
Black Sea – Sea of Azov basin 
Novorossiysk 0.270 Taganrog 0.140 
Sochi 0.285 Tuapse  0.250 
  Other ports  0.184 
Baltic basin  
Vyborg 0.200 Kaliningrad  0.170 
Vysotsk  0.220 Other ports  0.210 
Saint Petersburg  0.240   
North basin  
Arkhangelsk  0.230 Naryan-Mar  0.240 
Amderma  0.218 Onega  0.216 
Kandalaksha  0.216 Tiksi  0.216 
Mezen  0.216 Kh atanga  0.216 
Murmansk  0.230 Other ports  0.216 
Arctic and Far East basin  
Anadyr  0.175 Pevek  0.175 
Aleksandrovsk-in-Sakhalin  0.279 Provideniya  0.210 
Beringovskiy  0.175 Petropavlovsk-
Kamchatsky 0.175 
Boshnyakovo  0.234 Poronaysk  0.248 
Vladivistok  0.223 Posyet 0.205 
Vostochny  0.223 Uglegorsk  0.234 
Vanino  0.210 Ust-Kamchatsk  0.175 
Korsakov  0.220 Kholmsk   0.223 
Krasnogorsk  0.225 Shakhtyorsk  0.234 
Magadan  0.175 Egvekinot  0.265 
Nakhodka  0.223 Other ports  0.175 
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Order of Charge Collecting Tariff 
Port US$ Port US$ 
Nikolaevsk-on-Amur  0.225   
Caspian basin  
Makhachkala 0.150 Other ports  0.112 
Astrakhan (Olya) 0.120   
2. Beaconage  
Shall be collected for 1 cubic meter of vessel conventional capacity upon each fetching into the port and 
its transit passing.   
Exempted from the light dues are vessels calling for refuge to perform an  emergency repair and the 
vessels of group “D”. Vessels of groups “E” and “G” are exempted from the beaconage dues unless they 
perform cargo handling and operation s of commercial nature at the port. 
Black Sea – Sea of Azov basin 
Novorossiysk 0.025 Taganrog 0.025 
Sochi 0.025 Tuapse 0.025 
  Other ports 0.025 
Baltic basin 
Vyborg 0.025 Kaliningrad 0.025 
Vysotsk 0.025 Other ports 0.025 
Saint Petersburg 0.025   
North basin 
Arkhangelsk 0.025 Naryan-Mar 0.025 
Amderma 0.025 Onega 0.025 
Kandalaksha 0.025 Tiksi 0.025 
Mezen 0.025 Kh atanga 0.025 
Murmansk 0.025 Other ports 0.025 
Arctic and Far East basins 
Anadyr 0.025 Pevek 0.025 
Aleksandrovsk-in-Sakhalin 0.025 Provideniya 0.025 
Beringovskiy 0.025 Petro-pavlovsk-
Kamchatskiy 0.025 
Boshnyakovo 0.025 Poronaysk 0.025 
Vladivostok 0.025 Posyet 0.025 
Vostochny 0.025 Uglegorsk 0.025 
Vanino 0.025 Ust-Kamchatsk 0.025 
Korsakov 0.025 Kholmsk 0.025 
Krasnogorsk 0.025 Shakhtyorsk 0.025 
Magadan 0.025 Egvekinot 0.025 
Nakhodka 0.025 Other ports 0.025 
Nakhodka (oil harbor) 0.025   
Nikolaevsk-on-Amur  0.025   
Caspian basin 
Makhachkala 0.025 Other ports 0.025 
Astrakhan 0.025   
3. Canal dues  
Shall be collected for 1 cubic meter of vessel conventi onal capacity upon each pass of canal in one 
direction. 
Black Sea – Sea of Azov basin 
Taganrog 0.072 Tuapse 0.009 
Sea of Azov – Don River Canal  0.216   
Baltic basin 
Kaliningrad 0.075 Saint Petersburg 0.070 
Vyborg 0.045   
Vysotsk 0.025   
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Order of Charge Collecting Tariff 
Port US$ Port US$ 
Arkhangelsk 0.196 Naryan-Mar 0.299 
Mezen 0.159 Onega 0.299 
Far East basin 
Vostochny  0.011 Nikolaevsk-on-
Amur 0.050 
Kholmsk 0.011   
Caspian basin 
Volga River – Caspian Sea Canal   Makhachkala 0.016 
Astrakhan 0.790   
Astrakhan (Olya) 0.480   
4. Wharfage  
Shall be collected for 1 cubic meter of vessel conventional capa city for each day of vessel being alongside. 
The wharfage dues are collected from vessels staying al ongside the berth. For the vessels of groups “A”, 
“B” and “H” wharfage dues are charged per 1 m3 of the convention al volume of the vessel for each day 
of the vessel’s stay alongside the berth. The time of st ay at a berth is rounded off upward to one-half of 
the day. 
For the vessels of groups “C”, “D”, “E”, “F” and “G” berth dues are charged per 1m3 of the convetional 
volume for each call. 
Port Group A, B or H vessels  Group C, D, E, F or G vessels  
 for vessel being 
alongside, with load 
handling operations carried out  for all other cases  US dollars 
 US dollars  
Black Sea – Sea of Azov basin 
Novorossiysk  
- for bulk-carriers  0.0022 0.0007 0.0044 
- for tankers 0.0045 0.0015  
Sochi 0.0220 0.0070 0.0044 
Taganrog 0.0063 0.0021 0.0044 
Tuapse  
- for bulk-carriers 0.0021 0.0007 0.0044 
- for tankers  0.0042 0.0014  
Other ports 0.0040 0.0014 0.0044 
Baltic basin 
Vyborg 0.0051 0.0017 0.0040 
Vysotsk 0.0056 0.0019 0.0040 
Kaliningrad 0.0070 0.0023 0.0040 
Saint Petersburg 0.0031 0.0010 0.0040 
Other ports 0.0040 0.0013 0.0040 
North basin 
Arkhangelsk 0.0062 0.0021 0.0050 
Kandalaksha 0.0180 0.0060 0.0050 
Murmansk 0.0049 0.016 0.0050 
Naryan-Mar 0.0156 0.0052 0.0050 
Tiksi 0.0072 0.0024 0.0050 
Other ports 0.0100 0.0033 0.0050 
Arctic and Far East basins 
Anadyr 0.0079 0.0027 0.0070 
Vanino 0.0046 0.0015 0.0060 
Vladivostok 0.0054 0.0018 0.0060 
Vostochny 0.0130 0.0043 0.0060 
Korsakov 0.0190 0.0063 0.0060 
Magadan 0.0056 0.0018 0.0070  WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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Order of Charge Collecting Tariff 
Port US$ Port US$ 
Nakhodka 0.0049 0.0016 0.0060 
Nakhodka (oil harbor) 0.0148 0.0049 0.0060 
Nikolaevsk-on-Amur 0.0184 0.0061 0.0060 
Pevek 0.0113 0.0038 0.0070 
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy 0.0121 0.0040 0.0070 
Posyet 0.0113 0.0038 0.0060 
Provideniya 0.0068 0.0024 0.0070 
Kholmsk 0.0190 0.0063 0.0070 
Egvekinot 0.0103 0.0034 0.0070 
Other ports 0.0097 0.0032 0.0060 
Caspian basin 
Astrakhan 0.0220 0.0070 0.0044 
Makhachkala 0.0156 0.0052 0.0050 
Other ports 0.0146 0.0048 0.0044 
5. Anchor dues  
Shall be collected for 1 cubic meter of vessel conventi onal capacity for each hour of anchorage in the 
outer or inner harbor in excess of 12 hours. Incomp lete hour of anchorage shall be considered as a 
complete hour of anchorage.      
Black Sea – Sea of Azov basin 
Novorossiysk 0.0001 Taganrog 0.0001 
Sochi 0.0001 Tuapse 0.0001 
  Other ports 0.0001 
Baltic basin 
Vyborg 0.0001 Kaliningrad 0.0001 
Vysotsk 0.0001 Other ports 0.0001 
Saint Petersburg 0.0001   
North basin 
Arkhangelsk 0.0001 Naryan-Mar 0.0001 
Amderma 0.0001 Onega 0.0001 
Kandalaksha 0.0001 Tiksi 0.0001 
Mezen 0.0001 Khatanga 0.0001 
Murmansk 0.0001 Other ports 0.0001 
Arctic and Far East basins 
Anadyr 0.0001 Pevek 0.0001 
Aleksandrovsk-in-Sakhalin 0.0001 Provideniya 0.0001 
Beringovskiy 0.0001 Petropavlovsk-
Kamchatskiy 0.0001 
Boshnyakovo 0.0001 Poronaysk 0.0001 
Vladivostok 0.0001 Posyet 0.0001 
Vostochny 0.0001 Uglegorsk 0.0001 
Vanino 0.0001 Ust-Kamchatsk 0.0001 
Krasnogorsk 0.0001 Kholmsk 0.0001 
Magadan 0.0001 Shakhtyorsk 0.0001 
Nakhodka 0.0001 Egvekinot 0.0001 
Nakhodka (oil harbor) 0.0001 Other ports 0.0001 
Nikolaevsk-on-Amur 0.0001   
Caspian basin 
Makhachkala 0.0001 Other ports 0.0001 
Astrakhan 0.0001   WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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6. Ecological dues 
Shall be collected for the accepting , without any limitations, all type s of presented waste (except for 
ballast water) in the course of all period of vessel stay in the port, per one cubic meter of conventional 
capacity of a vessel or self-pro pelled part of a floating facility composed of indi vidual elements. 
Port Duration of in-harbour stay, days 
 no more 
than 10 
US$ 10 to 30 
Black Sea – Sea of Azov basin 
Novorossiysk, Tuapse 0.014 0.023 
Sochi 0.032 0.043 
Taganrog 0.038 0.050 
Baltic basin 
Vyborg 0.032 0.043 
Saint Petersburg 0.027 0.038 
Kaliningrad 0.038 0.050 
Arctic and Far East basins 
Vanino 0.012 0.020 
Vladivostok 0.018 0.027 
Nakhodka 0.018 0.027 
Nakhodka (oil harbor) 0.014 0.023 
Provideniya 0.022 0.041 
Caspian basin 
Astrakhan 0.018 0.027 
Makhachkala 0.014 0.023 
7. Pilotage dues  
Shall be collected for 1 cubic meter of  vessel conventional capacity. 
Port Off-harbour 
pilotage, for cubic 
meter / mile In-harbour pilotage, 
for cubic meter / 
operation 
 US dollars 
Black Sea – Sea of Azov basin 
Novorossiysk 0.0010 0.0040 
Sochi 0.0028 0.0079 
Taganrog 0.0011 0.0056 
Tuapse 0.0023 0.0060 
Sea of Azov – Don River Canal  0.0006  
Other ports 0.0010 0.0035 
Baltic basin 
Vyborg 0.0030 0.0065 
Vysotsk 0.0030 0.0065 
Kaliningrad 0.0011 0.0065 
Saint Petersburg 0.0009 0.0058 
Other ports 0.0011 0.0050 
North basin 
Arkhangelsk 0.0023 0.0090 
Kandalaksha 0.0029 0.0097 
Mezen 0.0067 0.0079 
Murmansk 0.0013 0.0060 
Naryan-Mar 0.0019 0.0079 
Onega 0.0067 0.0079 
Yenisei River (line pilotage) 0.0011  
Other ports 0.0013 0.0070  WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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Arctic and Far East basins 
Anadyr 0.0040 0.0088 
Vanino 0.0020 0.0060 
Vladivostok 0.0028 0.0060 
Vostochny 0.0028 0.0060 
Korsakov 0.0030 0.0074 
Magadan 0.0030 0.0088 
Nakhodka 0.0028 0.0060 
Nakhodka (oil harbor) 0.0028 0.0060 
Nikolaevsk-on-Amur  0.0014 0.0070 
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy 0.0038 0.0088 
Posyet 0.0020 0.0074 
Provideniya 0.0038 0.0088 
Kholmsk 0.0030 0.0074 
Other ports 0.0020 0.0060 
Caspian basin 
Astrakhan 0.0009 0.0056 
Makhachkala 0.0030 0.0056 
Other ports 0.0030 0.0056 
8. Navigation dues 
Shall be collected for each entering the port, sailing out of the port or the port transit passing, for 1 cubic 
meter of vessel convention al capacity, in ports supplied with shore radar systems for vessel course 
control. 
Порт  US$ 
Arkhangelsk 0.0130 
Vanino 0.0067 
Vladivostok 0.0250 
Vostochny 0.250 
Kaliningrad 0.0067 
Murmansk 0.0067 
Nakhodka 0.0250 
Nakhodka (oil harbor) 0.0250 
Novorossiysk 0.0056 
Saint Petersburg 0.0130 
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REFERENCE PAPER 7
 
 
Value Added Tax  
 
1. The major and vitally essential drugs, including  medicine - substances, among others those 
prepared by pharmacies, except for raw material (materials) for their preparation, vitamin-rich 
and treatment and preventive products of food, meat, dairy, fish and flour-and-cereals industry, household disinfectant, insecticides and deratization means, diapers, repellents, 
goods for veterinary uses, containers and packing; 
- major and vitally essential items of medical use; 
- major and vitally essential medical equipment; 
- artificial limbs and orthopedic articles, raw ma terials for their manufacture and semifinished 
articles for above; 
- technical facilities, including motor vehicles, materials which can be used only for disability 
prevention or rehabilitation of invalids; 
- lenses and rims for glasses (except for sunglasses); 
- food products produced directly by canteens of universities and schools, canteens of other 
educational institutions, canteens of me dical organizations, children’s preschool 
establishments and sold by them to afor esaid establishments, and also food products 
manufactured directly by organizations of public catering and sold by such to aforesaid canteens. 
 
2. Postage stamps (except for collectable stamps ), marked cards and marked envelopes, lottery 
tickets of lotteries conducted by decisions of  the Government of the Russian Federation 
and/or legislative (representative) bodies of c onstituent entities of the Russian Federation; 
- coins made of precious metals (except for coll ectable coins) which are the currency of the 
Russian Federation, or currency of foreign st ates. The procedure for referring coins made of 
precious metals to collectable coins shall be established by the Government of the Russian 
Federation; 
- goods placed under the customs treatment of duty free shop; 
- goods (works, services) except for excisable goods and excisable mineral raw materials sold 
(performed, rendered) within the framework of rendering gratuitous help (assistance) to the 
Russian Federation according to the Federal Law on  the Gratuitous Help (Assistance) to the 
Russian Federation and Addenda and Amendments to Certain Laws of the Russian Federation 
on Taxes and on the Establishment of Privileges under the Payments to State Extra-Budgetary 
Funds in Connection with the Granting of Gr atuitous Help (Assistance) to the Russian 
Federation. 
 
1. Sale of religious use objects  (according to the list approved by  the Government of the Russian 
Federation upon submission by religious organizations (asso ciations) the former being 
produced and sold by religious organizations ( associations) within the framework of religious 
activities, apart from excisable ones and al so organization and holding by aforesaid 
organizations of religious rites, ceremonies,  prayer assemblies or other cult activities; 
- sale of goods (except for excisable, mineral ra w materials and mineral resources, and also 
other goods according to the list approved by the Government of the Russian Federation upon 
submission by All-Russian public organizations  of disabled persons, works, services (except 
for broker and other intermediary services), effected and sold by: 
- public organizations of invalids (including those created as unions of public organizations of 
invalids) at least 80 per cent of whose membersh ip are invalids and their legal representatives; 
- organizations which entire authorized capital cons ists of contributions of public organizations 
of invalids specified in paragraph two of the present Subitem if the average active roll of 
invalids among their workers constitutes not less th an 50 per cent, and their share in the fund 
of wages - not less than 25 per cent;  WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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- establishments, whose asset’s are owned solely by  public organizations of invalids specified 
in paragraph two of the present Subitem and created to achieve educational, cultural, 
treatment-and-health improvement, physical culture  and sports, scientific, information related 
and other social purposes, and also to render le gal and other help to the disabled, disabled 
children and their parents; 
- health treatment and industrial (labour) works hops at antituberculousis, psychiatric, psycho-
neurological establishments, establishments of social protection or social rehabilitation of population; 
- sale of articles of folk art crafts of rec ognized artistic value (except for excisable goods) 
which samples have been registered in the order established by the Government of the 
Russian Federation; 
- sale of ore, concentrates and other industrial products containing precious metals, scrap and 
waste of precious metals for further processing and refining; sale of precious metals and gems 
by taxpayers (except for those listed in Subitem 6 of Item 1 of Article 164 of the present Code) to the State Fund of Precious Metals and Gems of the Russian Federation, to the 
Central Bank of the Russian Fede ration and banks; sale of gems into raw materials (except for 
raw diamonds) to be processed by enterprises irrespective of their forms of ownership for subsequent export sale; sale of gems into raw materials to speci alized foreign trade 
organizations, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and banks; sale of precious metals 
from the State Fund of Precious Metals and Gems  of the Russian Federation to specialized 
foreign trade organizations, the Central Bank of  the Russian Federation and banks, and also 
precious metals in ingots by the Central Bank of the Russian Federa tion and banks provided 
that these ingots remain in a certificated vault (t he State Vault of Valuables, the vault of the 
Central Bank of the Russian Fede ration or vaults of banks); 
- sale of raw diamonds by producing enterprises to processing enterprises of all forms of 
ownership; 
- intrasystem sale (transfers, performance, rendering for own needs) of goods produced 
(performed works, rendered services) by organiza tions and establishments of the penitentiary 
system; 
- transfer of goods (execution of works, rende ring of services) free of charge within the 
framework of charities according to the Federal Law on Charities and Charitable 
Organizations, except for excisable goods; 
- sale of scientific and educational book products  and also editorial, publishing and polygraphic 
activity in its production and sale; 
- sale of products of own manufacture of or ganizations engaged in the production of 
agricultural products which generate 70 per cen t and more of the overall share of incomes 
from the sale in the total sum of their incom es, the former done towards wages in kind for 
labour, issues in kind for labour, and also for the public catering of workers involved in 
agricultural works; 
- sale of products of mass media, printed matter associated with education, science and culture; 
editorial, publishing and polygraphic works a nd services in the production of mass media 
products and books associated with education, science and culture. 
 
2. The present Subitem shall not apply to mass me dia products of advertising and erotic nature 
and also to printed matter of advertising and erotic character. 
 3. Goods importation of which to the customs te rritory of the Russian Federation shall not be 
value added taxable: 
- goods (except for excisable goods) imported as the gr atuitous help (assistance) to the Russian 
Federation, in accordance with the manner est ablished by the Government of the Russian 
Federation pursuant to the Federal Law on the Gratuitous Help (Assistance) to the Russian 
Federation and the Introduction of Amendments and Addenda to Certain Legislative Acts of 
the Russian Federation on Taxes and on the Esta blishment of Privileges on Payments to the WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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State Extra-Budgetary Funds in Connection w ith the Granting of the Gratuitous Help 
(Assistance) to the Russian Federation”; 
- goods listed in Subitem 1 of Item 2 of Article 149 of the Tax Code and also the raw material 
and component parts for their production; 
- materials for production of medical immunobiol ogical drugs for diagnostics, prevention 
and/or treatment of infectious diseases (under the list approved by the Government of the 
Russian Federation); 
- valuable articles of arts handed over as gift s to establishments and referred by law of the 
Russian Federation to highly valuable articles of cultural and national heritage of peoples of 
the Russian Federation; 
- all types of printed publications received by the state and municipal libraries and museums 
under international exchange of books and al so of products of cinematography imported by 
specialized state organizations for the purposes of international non-commercial exchanges; 
- products manufactured as a result of economic ac tivity of Russian organizations on land lots 
being the territory of a foreign state covered by  the Russian Federation’s right of land use on 
the basis of an international treaty; 
- process equipment, components and spare pa rts thereto imported as a contribution to 
authorized (pooled) capitals of organizations; 
- raw natural diamonds; 
- goods intended for official use by foreign diplomatic and agencies equated thereto, and also 
for personal use by diplomatic and administ rative - clerical personnel of these agencies, 
including members of their families living together with them; 
- currency of the Russian Federation and foreign currency, notes, being a legal tender (except 
for those used for numismatic purposes), and al so financial credit instruments - shares, bonds, 
certificates, bills of exchange; 
- products of sea fishery caught and/or produced by fishing enterprises of the Russian 
Federation. 
 4. Goods levied by VAT an a 10 per cent rate:  5. The taxation shall be made under the 10 per cent tax rate in case of sale of: 
- the following food articles: 
- cattle and poultry in live weight; 
- meat and meat products (except for gourmet ar ticles: tenderloin, veal, tongues, sausage 
articles - fresh smoked of best quality, fresh sm oked semidry, of best quality, fresh seasoned, 
stuffed of best quality; smoked articles made of pork, mutton, beef, veal, poultry - balyk, karbonade, neck, ham, pastorma, loin; baked pork and beef; canned ham, bacon, karbonade 
and tongue in marinade); 
- milk and diary products (including ice-crea m produced on their basis, except for ice-cream 
produced on a fruits-and-berry basis, fruit and food ice); 
- eggs and egg based products; 
- vegetable oil; 
- margarine; 
- sugar, including raw sugar; 
- salt; 
-
 grain, compound food, fodder mixes, grain waste; 
- oilseeds and products of their processing (coarsely cut), oilcakes); 
- bread and bakery food articles (includi ng fancy bread, rusk and roll articles); 
- groats; 
- flour; 
- pasta articles; 
- live fish (except for valuable species: white  salmon, the Baltic and Far Eastern salmon, 
sturgeon (beluga, bester, sturgeon, sevryuga, sterlet), salmon, trout (except for sea trout), 
nelma, keta, chavych, kizhuch, muksun, om ul, the Siberian and Amur sig, chir);  WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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- seafoods and fish products, including fish cooled, frozen and other kinds of processing, 
herring, canned food and pickled canned food (excep t for gourmet articles: caviar of sturgeon 
and salmon species; of white salmon, the Baltic salmon, of sturgeon fishes - beluga, bester, sturgeon, sevryuga, sterlet; salmon; backs and fla nks of nelma, cold smoked; light-, medium- 
and semuzh- pickled keta and chavycha; backs of  keta, chavycha and cold smoked kizhuch, 
flanks of keta and sides of cold smoked chavycha; backs of muksun, omul, the Siberian and 
Amur sig, cold smoked chir; pickled canned f illet - slices of the Baltic salmon and the Far 
Eastern salmon; crab meat and sets of cooked-a nd-frozen separate limbs of crabs; of spiny 
lobsters); 
- children’s and diabetic foods; 
- vegetables (including potatoes); 
- the following goods for children: 
- knitted articles for the new-born and children of  day care, preschool, junior and senior school 
age groups: the street knitted articles, underwear knitted articles, socks and stockings articles, 
other knitted articles: gloves, mittens, head gears; 
- sewn articles (except for articles made of natu ral fur and natural leather) for the new-born and 
children of day care, preschool, junior and senior school age groups: the street clothes 
(including the dress and suit gro ups), underwear, headgears, cl othes and articles for new-born 
and children of day care group; 
- footwear (except for sports): footwear for the new-born and children of day care group, of 
preschool, school; made of felt; rubber: small children sizes, children, school; 
- children’s beds; 
- children’s mattresses; 
- perambulators; 
- school exercise-books; 
- toys; 
- plasticine; 
- pencil cases; 
- counting sticks; 
- school abacuses; 
- school diaries; 
- drawing-books; 
- albums for drawing; 
- albums for plotting; 
- folders for exercise-books; 
- covers for textbooks, diaries, exercise-books; 
- holders of cards with figures and letters; 
- 
diapers. 
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REFERENCE PAPER 8  
 
Export Tariff of the Russian Federation (May 2001)  
 
Code Description of products Rate of duty in % of customs value  
or in Euro  
0301 Live fish: 5 
0301 10 Ornamental fish: 0 
0302 fish, fresh or chilled, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading No. 0304, except: 5 
0302 31 --albacore or long finned tunas (Thunnus alalunga): 0 
0302 32 --yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares): 0 
0302 33 --skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito: 0 
0302 39 110 0 ----bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) 0 
0302 61 --sardines (Sardina Pilchar dus, Sardinops spp.), Sardinella  (Sardinella spp.), brisling or  sprats (Sprattus sprattus): 0 
0302 64 --mackerel (Scomber sc ombrus, Scomber australasi cus, Scomber japonicus): 0 
0302 65 --dogfish and other sharks: 0 
0303 Fish frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading No. 0304: 5 
0303 41 --albacore or long finned tunas (Thunnus alalunga) 0 
0303 42 --yellowfin tunas (Thunnus albacares): 0 
0303 43 --skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito: 0 
0303 71 --sardines (Sardina pilchardus, Sardinops  spp.), Sardinella (Sardi nella spp.), brisling or sp rats (Sprattus sprattus): 0 
0303 74 --mackerel (Scomber scom brus, Scomber australasicus,  Scomber  japonicus):  
0303 75 --dogfish and other sharks: 0 
0306 Crustaceans, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, fr ozen, dried, salted or in brine; crustaceans in shell, cooke d by 
steaming or by boiling in water, whether or not chilled, frozen,  dried, salted or in brine; flours, meals and pellets of 
crustaceans for usage for eating, except: 10 
0306 19 900 0 flours, meals and pellets of crustaceans for usage for eating 0 
0306 29 900 0 flours, meals and pellets of crustaceans for usage for eating 0 
0307 Molluscs, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled frozen, dried, salted or in brine; aquatic invertebrates other tha n 
crustaceans and molluscs, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; flours, meals and pellets of aquatic 
invertebrates for usage for eating, except: 5 
0307 99 900 0 flours, meals and pellets of aq uatic invertebrates for usage for eating 0 
1201 00 Soya beans, whether or not broken: 20, but not less than 35 Euro per 1,000 kg 
1205 00 Rape or colza seeds, whether or not broken: 20, but not less than 35 Euro per 1,000 kg 
1206 00 Sunflower seeds, whether or not broken : 20, but not less than 30 Euro per 1,000 kg 
1605 10 000 0 Crabs 5 
1605 20 Shrimps and prawns, except: 5 
1605 20 100 0 -- in airtight packing 0 
1605 30 000 0 Lobsters 5 
1650 40 000 0 Other crustaceans 5 
1605 90 900 0 Other aquatic invertebrates 5  
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 Code Description of products Rate of duty in % of customs value  
or in Euro  
2207 Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcohol ic strength by volume of 80% vol. or hi gher; ethyl alcohol and other  spirits, 
denatured, of any strength: 6.5 
2208 Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volu me of less than 80% vol.; spir its, liqueurs and other spirituous  
beverages, except: 6.5 
2208 60 - Vodka: 0 
2208 70 - liqueurs and cordials: 0 
2501 00 Salt (including table salt a nd denatured salt) and pure sodium  chloride, whether or not in aqueous solution or containi ng 
added anti-caking or free-flowing agents; sea water: 6.5 
2502 00 000 0 Unroasted iron pyrites 6.5 
2503 00 Sulphur of all kinds, other than sublimed sul phur, precipitated sulphur and colloidal sulphur: 6.5 
2504 Natural graphite: 6.5 
2505 Natural sands of all kinds, whether or not Natural sands of all kinds, whether or not of Chapter 26: 6.5 
2506 Quartz (other than natural sands); quartzite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into 
blocks or slabs of a rectangul ar (including square) shape: 6.5 
2507 00 Kaolin and other kaolinic cl ays, whether or not calcined: 6.5 
2508 Other clays (not including expanded clay s of heading No. 6806), andalusite, kyanite and sillimanite, wh ether or not calcin ed; 
mullite; chamotte or dinas earths: 6.5 
2509 00 000 0 Chalk 6.5 
2510 Natural calcium phosphates, natural aluminiu m calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk: 6.5 
2511 Natural barium sulphate (barytes); natu ral barium carbonate (witherite), whether or  not calcined, other than barium oxide of 
heading No. 2816: 6.5 
2512 00 000 0 Siliceous fossil meals (for example, kieselguhr, tri polite and diatomite) and similar siliceous earths, whether o r not calcined, 
of  an apparent specific gravity of 1 or less  6.5 
2513 Pumice stone; emery; natural corundum, natural garnet and ot her natural abrasives, whether or not heat-treated: 6.5 
2514 00 000 0 Slate, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by  sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangula r (including 
square) shape 6.5 
2515 Marble, travertine, ecaussine and other calc areous monumental or building stone of an a pparent specific gravity of 2.5 or 
more and alabaster, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cu t, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a 
rectangular 6.5 
2516 Granite, porphyry, basalt, sands tone and monumental or building stone, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by 
sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slab s of a rectangular(inc luding square) shape: 6.5 
2517 Pebbles, gravel, broken or crushed stone, of a kind commonly used for concrete ag gregates, for road metalling or for railw ay 
or other ballast, shingle and flint, whether or not heat-treated ; macadani of  slag, dross or similar industrial waste, etc. 6.5 
2518 Dolomite, whether or not calcined; dolomite roughly trimmed or me rely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of  a 
rectangular(including square) shape; agglomerat ed dolomite(includi ng tarred dolomite): 6.5 
2519 Natural magnesium carbonate (ma gnesite); fused magnesia; dead- burned (sintered) magnesia, whether or not containing 
small quantities of other oxides a dded before sintering; other magn esium oxide, whether or not pure: 6.5 
2520 Gypsum; anhydrite; plasters (con sisting of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate ), whether or not coloured, with or without 
small quantities of accelerators or retarders: 6.5 
2521 00 000 0 Limestone flux; limestone and ot her calcareous stone, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or cement 6.5  WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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Code Description of products Rate of duty in % of customs value  
or in Euro  
2522 Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic  lime, other than calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading No. 2825: 6.5 
2523 Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag  cement, supersulphate cem ent and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not 
coloured or in the form of clinkers: 6.5 
2524 00 Asbestos: 6.5 
2525 Mica, including splittings; mica waste: 6.5 
2526 Natural steatite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by  sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of  a rectang ular 
(including square) shape; talc: 6.5 
2527 00 000 0 Natural cryolite and natural chiolite 6.5 
2528 Natural borates and concentrates thereo f, (whether or not calcined), but not in cluding borates separated from natural brin e; 
natural boric acid containing not more than 85% of H3BO3 calculated on the dry weight: 6.5 
2529 Felspar; leucite, nepheline and nepheline syenite; fluorspar: 6.5 
2530 10 -vermiculite, perlite and chlorites, unexpanded: 6.5 
2530 20 000 0 -kieserite and epsomite  (natural magnesium sulphates) 6.5 
2530 40 000 0 -natural micaceous iron oxides 6.5 
2530 90 200 0 --sepiolite 6.5 
2530 90 950 0 --other 6.5 
2601 Iron ores and concentrates, including roasted iron pyrites: 6.5 
2602 00 000 0 Manganese ores and concentrates , including manganiferous iron ores and conc entrates with a manga nese content of 2 0% or 
more, calculated on the dry weight, except: 6.5 
2603 00 000 0 Copper ores and concentrates, except: 6.5 
ex.2603 00 000 0 Concentrate of  copper with  a arsenic content of  0,6% or more 0 
2604 00 000 0 Nickel ores and concentrates 6.5 
2605 00 000 0 Cobalt ores and concentrates 6.5 
2606 00 000 0 Aluminium ores and concentrates 6.5 
2607 00 000 0 Lead ores and concentrates 6.5 
2608 00 000 0 Zinc ores and concentrates 6.5 
2609 00 000 0 Tin ores and concentrates 6.5 
2610 00 000 0 Chromium ores and concentrates 6.5 
2611 00 000 0 Tungsten ores and concentrates 6.5 
2612 Uranium or thorium ores and concentrates: 6.5 
2613 Molybdenum ores and concentrates: 6.5 
2614 00 Titanium ores and concentrates 6.5 
2615 Niobium, tantalum, vanadium or zirconium ores and concentrates: 6.5 
2616 Precious metal ores  and concentrates: 6,5 
2617 Other ores and concentrates: 6.5 
2618 00 000 0 Granulated slag (slag sand) from the manufacture of iron or steel 6.5 
2619 00 Slag, dross (other than granulated slag), sca1ings and other waste from the manufacture of iron or steel: 6.5 
2620 Ash and residues (other than from the manufacture of iron or steel), containing me tals or metal compounds: 6.5 
2621 00 000 0 Other slag and ash, including seaweed ash (kelp) 6.5 
2704 00 Coke and semi-coke of coal, of lignite or of pe at, whether or not agglomerated; retort carbon: 6.5  
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 Code Description of products Rate of duty in % of customs value  
or in Euro  
2705 00 000 0 Coal gas, water gas, producer gas, and similar gase s, other than petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons 5  
2706 00 000 0 Tar distilled from coal, from lignite or from peat, a nd other mineral tars, whether or  not dehydrated or partiall y distilled, 
including reconstituted tars 5 
2707 Oils and other products of the distillation of high temperature coal tar; similar pr oducts in which the weight of the arom atic 
constituents exceeds that of the non-aromatic constituents: 5 
2708 Pitch and pitch coke, obtained from co al tar or from other mineral tars: 5 
2709 00 Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude: 22 Euro 
2710 00 Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude; pr eparations not elsewhere specified or 
included,  containing70% or more by weight of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being 
the basic, except: 5 
2710 00 110 0 --for undergoing a specific process 39 Euro 
2710 00 390 0 -----other light oils  
2710 00 410 0 --for undergoing a specific process 39 Euro 
2710 00 590 0 ---other  
2710 00 610 0 ---for undergoing a specific process 39 Euro 
2710 00 690 0 ---for other purposes  
2710 00 710 0 ---for undergoing a specific process 31Euro 
2710 00 780 0 ----with sulphur content exceeding 2.8% by weight 20 Euro  from 10-15.06.2001 
2711 Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons, except: 5 
2711 11 000 0 --natural gas 40 Euro per 1,000 kg 
2711 12 --propane: 40 Euro per 1,000 kg 
2711 13 --butanes: 40 Euro per 1,000 kg 
2711 14 000 0 --ethylene, propylene, butylene and butadiene 40 Euro per 1,000 kg 
2711 19 000 0 --other 40 Euro per 1,000 kg 
2711 21 000 0 --natural gas 5, but not less than 2,5 Euro per 1,000 kg 
2714 Bitumen and asphalt, natural; bituminous or oil shale an d tar sands; asphaltites an d asphaltic rocks, except: 5 
2714 10 000 0 -bituminous or oil shale and tar sands 0 
2715 00 Bituminous mixtures based on natural Bi tuminous mixtures based on natural bitume n, on mineral tar or  on mineral tar pit ch 
(for example, bituminous mastics, cut-backs): 5 
ex. 2805 Alkali or alkaline-earth metals; rare-e arth metals, scandium and yttrium, whethe r or not intermixed or interalloyed; m ercury, 
except: 6.5 
2805 21 000 0 --calcium 0 
2818 20 000 0 -aluminium oxide, ot her than artificial corundum 6.5 
2818 30 000 0 -aluminium hydroxide 6.5 
2825 Hydrazine and hydroxylamine and their inorganic salts; other inorganic bases othe r metal oxides, hydroxides and peroxides:  6.5 
2902 41 000 0 --o-xylene 6.5 
2902 43 000 0 --p-xylene  
2902 50 000 0 -styrene 6.5 
2905 13 000 0 --butan-1-ol (n-butyl alcohol) 6.5  WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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Code Description of products Rate of duty in % of customs value  
or in Euro  
2907 Phenols; phenol-alcohols:  
2907 23 100 0 ---4,4'-isopropylidenediphenol (bisphenol A, diphenylolpropane) 0 
2933 71 000 0 --6-hexanelactam (epsilon-caprolactam) 6.5 
3102 10 -urea, whether or not in aqueous solution: 5, but not less than 4 Euro per 1,000 kg 
3102 30 -ammonium nitrate, whether or not in aqueous solution: 5 
3104 10 000 0 -carnallite, sylvite and ot her crude natural potassium salts 5 
3104 30 000 0 potassium sulphate 5 
3104 90 000 0 -other 5 
3104 20 -potassium chloride: 5 
3105 Mineral or chemical fertilizers contai ning two or three of the two fertilizing elements nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium ; 
other fertilizers; goods of this chapter in  tablets or similar forms or in packages  of a gross weight not exceeding 10 kg 5 
3901 Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms 6.5 
3902 Polymers of propylene or othe r olefins, in primary forms:: 6.5 
3904 Polymers of vinyl chloride or other ha logenated olefins, in primary forms:  
3904 61 900 0 ---other 0 
3904 69 000 0 --other 0 
4101 Raw hides and skins of bovine or equine animals, fresh or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherw ise preserved, but not 
tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared, whether or not dehaired or split: 20, but not less than 210 Euro per 1,000 kg 
4102 Raw hides and skins of sheep and lambs,  fresh or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, but not tanned, 
parchment-dressed or further prepared, whether or not dehaired or split, other than those excluded by Note 1 c) to this 
Chapter: 20, but not less than 150 Euro per 1,000 kg 
4103 Other raw hides and skins, fresh or salte d, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise pr eserved, but not tanned, parchment-dresse d or 
further prepared, whether or not dehaired or split other than  those excluded by Note l b) or 1 c) to this Chapter: 20, but not less than 125 Euro per 1,000 kg 
4104 Leather of bovine or equine animals, dehaired, other than leather of heading No. 4108 or 4109: 10, but not less than 90 Eu ro per 1,000 kg 
4105 Sheep or lamb skin leather, without  wool on, other than leather of heading No . 4108 or 4109: 10, but not less than 70 Eur o per 1,000 kg 
4107 Leather of other animals, without hair  on, other than leather of heading No. 4108 or 4109: 10, but not less than 60 Euro p er 1,000 kg 
4401 Firewood, in the form of logs, billets, twigs, faggots or si milar; wood chips or particles;  sawdust, wood waste and scrap,  
whether or not agglomerated  into logs, briquettes, pe lletes, or similar forms: 5 
4402 – 4421 Wood and wooden articles, charcoal, except: 10, but not less than 5 Euro per 1 m3 
4403 20 -other, coniferous: 6,5, but not less than 2,5 Euro per 1 m3 
4403 10 900 1  others of oak, beech, asp 20, but not less than 24 Euro per 1 m3 
4403 91 000 0 --of oak (Quercus spp.) 20, but not less than 24 Euro per 1 m3 
4403 92 000 0 --of beech (Fagus spp.) 20, but not less than 24 Euro per 1 m3 
4403 99 500 0 Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped  of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared of birch 5 
4403 99 990 1 ---of poplar 20, but not less than 24 Euro per 1 m3 
4403 99 990 9 Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped  of bark or sapwood, or  roughly squared of asp 0 
4407 10 Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whet her or not planed, sanded or fi nger-jointed, with a thickness 
exceeding 6 mm: 6,5, but not less than 5 Euro per 6 mm 
4407 91 others of oak 10, but not less than 10 Euro per 1 m3 
4407 92 others of beech (Fagus spp.) 10, but not less than 10 Euro per 1 m3  
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 Code Description of products Rate of duty in % of customs value  
or in Euro  
ex. 4407 99 others of poplar 10, but not less than 12 Euro per 1 m3 
ex. 4408 90 Veneer sheets, sheets for plywood (whether or not splic ed) and other wood, sawn lengthwis e, sliced or peeled of oak , beech, 
asp 5, but not less than 6 Euro per 1 m3 
ex. 4409 20  Wood of oak, beech, asp 5, but not less than 6 Euro per 1 m3 
4411 11 000 0 Fibreboard of wood  not mechanically worked or surface-coated (covered) with density 0,8 g/cm3 0 
4411 19 000 0 Fibreboard of wood  not mechanically worked or surface-coated (covered) with density 0,8 g/cm3, other 0 
4419 00 900 0 Tableware and kitchenware, of wood: 0 
4420 10 190 0 --of other wood 0 
4701 00 Mechanical wood pulp: 10 
4707 Waste and scrap of paper or paperboard: 10 
4703 21 000 0 Chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate, other than dissolving grades: 10, but not less than 40 Euro per 1,000 kg 
4704 21 000 0 Chemical wood pulp, sulphite  other than dissolving grades: 10, but not less than 40 Euro per 1,000 kg 
4801 00 Newsprint, in rolls or sheets: 10 
4823 Other paper, paperboard, cellu lose wadding and webs of cellulose fibres, cut to size or shape; other articles of paper pul p, 
paper, paperboard, cellulose waddi ng or webs of cellulose fibres: 10 
7101 Pearls, natural or cultured, whether or not worked or graded, but not strung, mount ed or set; ungraded pearls, natural or 
cultured, temporarily strung fo r convenience of transport: 6.5 
7112 Waste and scrap of precious metal or of  metal clad with precious metal; other wa ste and scrap containing precious metal or  
its  compound intended for extracting precious metal: 6.6 
ex.7102 39 000 0 diamonds 0 
7108 Gold (including gold plated with platinum), unwrought or in semi-manuf actured forms or in powder form 5 
7201 Pig iron and spiegeleisen, in pigs , blocks or other primary forms: 5 
7203 Ferrous products obtained by direct reduction of iron ore a nd other spongy ferrous products, in  lumps, pellets or similar 
forms; iron having a minimum purity by weight of  99.94%, in lumps, pellets or similar forms: 5 
7205 Granules and powders of pig iron, spiegeleisen, iron or steel: 5 
7229 Wire of other alloy steel: 5 
7204 Ferrous waste and scrap; remel ting scrap ingots of iron or steel: 5 
7204 41 – – turnings, shavings, chips, milli ng waste, sawdust, filings, trimmings and stampings, whether or not in bundles: 15,  but not less than 15 Euro per 1,000 kg 
7401 Copper mattes; cement c opper(precipitated copper): 10 
7402 00 000 0 Unrefined copper; copper  anodes for electrolytic refining 10 
7403 Refined copper and copper alloys, unwrought : 10 
7404 00 Copper waste and scrap: 50, but not less than 420 Euro per 1,000 kg 
7405 00 000 0 Master alloys of copper 10 
7501 Nickel mattes, ni ckel oxide sinters and other intermedia te products of nickel metallurgy: 10 
7502 Unwrought nickel: 10 
7503 00 Nickel waste and scrap: 30, but not less than 720 Euro per 1,000 kg 
7601 Unwrought aluminium: 5 
7602 00 Aluminium waste and scrap: 50, but not less than 380 Euro per 1,000 kg 
7801 Unwrought lead: 6.5  WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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Code Description of products Rate of duty in % of customs value  
or in Euro  
7802 00 000 0 Lead waste and scrap 30, but not less than 105 Euro per 1,000 kg 
7901 Unwrought zinc: 10 
7902 00 000 0 Zinc waste and scrap 30, but not less than 180 Euro per 1,000 kg 
8001 Unwrought tin: 6.5 
8002 00 000 0 Tin waste and scrap 6.5 
8101 91 – – unwrought tungsten (wolfram), includ ing bars and rods obtained simply by sintering; waste and scrap: 6.5 
8102 91 – – unwrought molybdenum, including bars and rods obt ained simply by sinterin g; waste and scrap: 6.5 
8103 10 – unwrought tantalum, including bars and rods obtained  simply by sintering; waste and scrap; powders : 6.5 
8105 10 900 0 – – waste and scrap 30, but not less than 1200 Euro per 1,000 kg 
8106 00 Bismuth and articles thereo f, including waste and scrap : 6.5 
8107 Cadmium and articles thereof,  including waste and scrap 6.5 
8108 10 100 0  6.5 
8108 10 900 0 – – waste and scrap 30, but not less than 225 Euro per 1,000 kg 
8109 Zirconium and articles thereof,  including waste and scrap : 6.5 
8110 00 Antimony and articles thereof, including waste and scrap 6.5 
8111 00 Manganese and articles thereo f, including waste and scrap: 6.5 
8112 Beryllium, chromium, germanium, vanadium, gallium, hafnium,  indium, niobium (columbium), rhenium and thallium, and 
articles of these metals, including waste and scrap 6.5 
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  REFERENCE PAPER 9  
 
Table 1:  List of Goods Subject to Hygienic Assessment  
 
 The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation issued Order No. 217 dated July 20, 1998 
“On Hygienic Assessment of the Manufacture, Delivery and Distribution of Products and 
Commodities”.   This Order establishes inter alia : 
  
- Regulations on Hygienic Assessment of Pr oducts, Commodities as well as Manufactures;  
- List of Socially Significant and Potentially Hazardous Products and Commodities Subject to 
Hygienic Assessment by the Department of St ate Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision 
of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation; 
- List of Types of Products and Commodities Subject to Hygienic Assessment. 
 
 The Department of State Sanitary and Epidemio logical Supervision of the Ministry of Health 
of the Russian Federation (Gossanepidnadzor) conducts hygienic assessment (issues hygienic 
approvals) of any socially significant, potentiall y hazardous types of products and commodities in 
accordance with the following List.  
Table 2:  List of Socially Significant and Potentially Hazardous Products
 
 and Commodities Subject to  Hygienic Assessment  
by the Department of State Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision  
of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation  
 1.  Foodstuffs 
1.1  specialized baby food products, including components for their production; 1.2  food additives (buffers, preservatives, stabilizers, leavening agents); 1.3  food products and alimentary feedstock ma de from new (unconventional) raw materials and 
produced using new processes; 
1.4  products intended for therapeutic or preventive nutrition. 
 
2.  Products for children: 2.1  materials used in the manufacture of produc ts for new-borns and babies under one year old; 
2.2  perfumes and cosmetics for children; 2.3  teaching aids, textbooks, didactic materials. 
 
3.  Dyes, finishing, felt-proofing and water-repelling materials, softeners.  4.  Products for home-use: 4.1  reagents for potable water treatment; 4.2  household devices intended for after-treatment of potable water; 
4.3  perfumes, cosmetics and mouth care agents containing biologically active components, 
essential oils, fragrance compounds, preservativ es, pigments, sunscreen and fluorine-
containing compounds, home-use skin protecti on substances; new a nd unconventional raw 
materials usable in perfumes, cosmetics and mouth care agents. 
 
5.  Products intended for industrial use: 
5.1  personal protective agents, including ointme nts, pastes and creams usable in industry; 
5.2  equipment and apparatus for collective protection, materials for the manufacture of 
ventilation systems; and 
5.3  waste-incinerating furnaces and units. 
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6.  Medical equipment, tools and hygienic agents: 6.1  physiotherapeutic, diagnostic and medical treatment equipment.  7.  Products containing sources of ionizing ra diation, including generating one, which are 
intended for full-scale production or new technolog y use. Industrial waste containing natural 
or artificial radio-nuclides which are used as bu ilding materials, fertilizers or otherwise. 
 8.  Antenna feeder systems of radio transmitting stations, radar stations (including ones for space 
tracking), outdoor switch-gears for high and ultrahigh voltage s ubstations, satellite 
telecommunications systems. 
 
 Other hygienic approvals are issued by the Depa rtment of State Sanitary and Epidemiological 
Supervision of the Ministry of Health of the Russi an Federation (Gossanepidnadzor), centers of state 
sanitary and epidemiological supervision in the subject s of the Russian Federation, regional centers of 
state sanitary and epidemiological supervision in tr ansport, the Federal Center for State Sanitary and 
Epidemiological Supervision at the Ministry of Hea lth of the Russian Federation or centers of state 
sanitary and epidemiological supervision of the Fe deral Agency for Medical, Biological and Extreme 
Problems under the Ministry of Health of the Russi an Federation, authorizing manufacture, delivery 
and distribution of products a nd commodities in accordance with the Regulations on Hygienic 
Assessment of Products, Commodities as well as Manuf actures and the following List of Products and 
Commodities Subject to Hygienic Assessment.  
 
 
Table 3:  List of Types of Products a nd Commodities Subject to Hygienic Assessment
 
 
1. Alimentary raw materials, foodstuffs, food additives, biologically active additives, 
preservatives; materials and their derivatives contacting foodstuffs.  
 2. Products for children: games and toys, cloth es (including bed-linen), footwear, teaching aids, 
stationery, furniture, baby carriages, knapsacks,  artificial polymer and synthetic materials 
used in the manufacturing of products for children.  
 
3. Materials, equipment and substances used in  commercial and potable water supply practices.  
 4. Perfumes, cosmetics, mouth care agents.   5. Chemical and petrochemical products fo r industrial use, household chemicals.  
 
6. Polymer and synthetic materials intended for use in construction, transport and manufacture 
of furniture and other home-use articles; chem ical threads and fibres, textile, sewed and 
knitted materials containing chemical fibres and textile auxiliary materials; artificial and 
synthetic leather and textile materials for footwear.  
 
7. Products of mechanical engineering and inst rument-making of industr ial, medicinal and home 
use designation.  
 8. Printed products.   
9. Products derived from natural raw material s treated (painting, impregnation, ionizing 
radiation etc.) in the course of production.  
 10. Materials for products in contact with human skin.    WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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  11. Products and articles constituting a source of  ionizing radiation, including generating 
radiation, as well as products and commoditi es containing radioactive substances.  
 12. Building stock and materials in which the cont ent of radioactive substances is restricted by 
hygienic standards, including industrial waste intended for recycling and use in business, as 
well as metal scrap.  
 13. Mobile vehicles and products of transport designation.    HS codes are not indicated as groupings of goods established by the Order do not correspond 
to the HS. 
  The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federa tion plans to group the goods listed in the Order 
as per the Russian HS during 2001.  
 
_______________ 
 
  An extract from the Price List for Servi ces and Goods provided by the Center for 
Standardization and Certification of the Ministry of  Health of Russia approved by the director of the 
Center is adduced in the Table below. Prices are the same for domestic a nd imported products and for 
services provided to domestic and foreign traders.   Any laboratory research, instrument testi ng and measurements, expert investigations 
incidental to hygienic assessment of products and goods are performed by central laboratories on 
contract basis. The Chief  State Sanitary Physic ian of the Russian Federation approves the list of 
central laboratories. The price list for works so pr ovided is approved by the chief officials of such 
centers based on the volume of such work s, postal, telephone and other costs. 
 
Table 4:  Extract from the Price List for Services and Goods of the 
 
Center for Standardization and Certification of the Ministry of Health  
of  the Russian Federation approved by Order No. 1 of the  
Director of the Center for Standardization and Certification of the  
Ministry of Health of Russia of 9 January 2001  
 
Item 
No. Description of service, product Price less VAT 
(rubles) Price inclusive 
of VAT (rubles) 
1 Issuance of sanitary and epidemiological approvals for products 
and goods subject to hygienic assessment by Gossanepidnadzor and their insertion in the Federal Registry as required by 
Appendix 2 to Order No. 217 of the Ministry of Health dated 
20 July  1998. 900.00 1,080.00 
2 Renewal of sanitary and epidemiological approvals for products 
and goods subject to hygienic assessment by Gossanepidnadzor. 160.00 192.00 
3 Issuance of an annex for a sanitary and epidemiological 
approval. 50.00 60.00 
4 Renewal of an annex for a sanitary and epidemiological 
approval. 25.00 30.00 
5 Issuance of registration cer tificates for alcohol-containing 
perfumes and cosmetics. 590.00 708.00 
6 Issuance of reference letters for presentation to customs 
authorities regarding alcohol-containing perfumes and 
cosmetics. 250.00 300.00 WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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REFERENCE PAPER 10
 
 
List of Goods Subject to State Veterinary Control  
 
 The Member States of the Customs Union of the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus, 
the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Ky rgyzstan, and the Republic of Tajikistan have 
established the List of Goods Subject to State Ve terinary Control. While importing these goods into 
the customs territory of the member states of the Customs Union the following HS codes are applied. 
  
Code Name of Heading 
Chapter 01 Live Animals 
0101 Live horses, donkeys, mules, and hinnies:  horses 
0101 11  pure-bred breeding animals      
0101 19 for slaughter, other: 
0101 20 donkeys, mules, and hinnies: 
0102 Live bovine animals: 
0102 10 pure-bred breeding animals: 
0102 90 domestic species, including for slaughter and other 
0103 Live pigs: 
0103 10 000 pure-bred breeding animals for slaughter and others: 
0103 91 weighting less than 50 kg: 
0103 92 weighting 50 kg or more 
0104 10 Pure-bred breeding sheep, other: 
0104 20 Pure-bred breeding goats, other 
0105 Live poultry, i.e. Gallus domesticus species, ducks, geese, turkeys, and guinea fowls pure-
bred, weighing 185 g or less: 
0105 11 poultry of Gallus domesticus species 
0105 12 turkeys 
0105 19  geese, ducks and guinea fowls, other for slaughter and other: 
0105 92  poultry of Gallus domesticus species, weighing 2,000 g or less 
0105 93 poultry of Gallus domesticus species weighing more than 2,000 g 
0105 99 ducks, geese, turkeys, guinea fowls 
0106 00 Other live animals. 
Chapter 02  Meat and Edible Meat Offal 
0201 Meat of bovine animals, fresh or chilled: 
0201 10 000 carcasses and half-carcasses  
0201 20 other cuts, unseparated or separated forequarters 
0201 30      boneless cuts  
0202 Meat of bovine animals, frozen: 
0202 10 carcasses and half-carcasses 
0202 20 other cuts, with bone, in compensated quarters, unseparated or separated  forequarters, 
unseparated or separated hindquarter 
0202 30 cuts boneless, other 
0203 pork, fresh, chilled, or frozen: 
0203 11 carcasses or half-carcasses: 
0203 12 hams, shoulders, and cuts thereof, with bone 
0203 19 other cuts thereof, including boneless 
0203 21 carcasses and half-carcasses: 
0203 22 hams, shoulders of pigs, and cuts thereof, with bone 
0203 29 cuts with bone, boneless and other 
0204 Meat of sheep or goats, fresh, chilled, or frozen: 
0204 10  carcasses and half-carcasses of lamb, other meet of sheep, fresh or chilled  
0204 21 carcasses and half-carcasses  
0204 22 other cuts, with bone  WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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  Code Name of Heading 
0204 23 000    boneless  
0204 30   carcasses and half-carcasses of lamb, frozen other meat of sheep, frozen  
0204 41   carcasses and half carcasses  
0204 42        other cuts, with bone 
0204 43        boneless 
0204 50        goat meat, fresh or chilled 
0205        Meat of horses, donkeys, mu les, or hinnies, fresh, chilled, or frozen 
0206           Edible meat offal of bovine animals, pigs, sheep, goats, horses, donkeys, mules, or hinnies, 
fresh, chilled, or frozen: 
0206 10        of bovine animals, fresh or chilled: 
0206 21    tongues 
0206 22        livers 
0206 29        other offal 
0206 30        of pigs, fresh or chilled; 
0206 41        pig livers, chilled: 
0206 49        other offal of pigs chilled: 
0206 80 offal of other animals, fresh or chilled: 
0206 90        frozen offal of other animals 
0207           Meat and edible offal of the poultry mentioned in Heading 0105, fresh, chilled, or frozen: 
fowls of Gallus domesticus species: 
0207 11 not cut in pieces, fresh or chilled 
0207 12        not cut in pieces, frozen 
0207 13        poultry cuts and offal, fresh or chilled 
0207 14        poultry cuts with and without bone, and offal, frozen turkey 
0207 24        not cut in pieces, fresh or chilled 
0207 25        not cut in pieces, frozen: 
0207 26        poultry cuts with and without bone, and offal, fresh or chilled: 
0207 27        poultry cuts with and without bone, and offal, frozen duck, goose and guinea-fowl  
0207 32        not cut in pieces, fresh or chilled 
0207 33        not cut in pieces, frozen 
0207 34        fatty livers, fresh or chilled: goose and duck 
0207 35        cuts of goose, duck and guinea-fowl, with and without bone, and offal except fatty liver, 
fresh or chilled 
0207 36       cuts of goose, duck and guinea-fowl, with and without bone, and offal except fatty liver, 
fresh or chilled: 
0208           Other meat and edible meat offal, fresh, chilled, or frozen: 
0208 10        of rabbits or hairs, fresh, chilled and frozen 
0208 20 000  frog legs 
0208 90  of domestic pigeons; of game, other than rabbits or hares; of quails; meat of whales and 
seals; of reindeer; other 
0210 Meat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried, or smoked; edible flours of meat or meat 
offal:  pork 
0210 11 hams, shoulders, and cuts thereof, with bone 
0210 12 briskets (streaky) and cuts 
0210 19 other cuts 
0210 20 meat of bovine animals with or without bone 
0210 90 horsemeat, lamb, goat meat, reindeer meat, other; offal of pigs, of bovine animals, of sheep 
and goats, other; livers of poultry, edible flour of meat and meat offal 
Chapter 03 Fish and Crustaceans, Moll uscs, and Other Aqua tic Invertebrates 
0301           Live fish: 
0301 10        ornamental fi sh, freshwater fish, saltwater fish 
0301 91        trout (Salmo trutta, Oncorhynchus mykiss, Oncorhynchus clarki, Oncorhynchus aguabonita, 
Oncorhynchus gilae, Oncorhynchus apache and Oncorhynchus chrysogaster) and other 
0301 92  eels (Anguilla spp) WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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Code Name of Heading 
0301 93 carp 
0301 99  other freshwater and saltwater fish: 
0302 Fish, fresh or chilled, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of Heading 0304:  
salmonidae, excluding livers and roes 
0302 11        trout (Salmo trutta, Oncohynchus mykiss, Oncorhynchus clarki, Oncorhynchus aguabonita, 
Oncorhynchus gilae, Oncorhynchus apache , Oncorhynchus chrysogaster), and other 
0302 12 Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, Oncorhynchus keta, 
Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Oncorhynchus masou, and Oncorhynchus rhodurus), Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), and Danube salmon (Hucho hucho)
0302 19 other of salmon family flat fish (Pleuronectidae, Bothidae, Cynoglossidae, Soleidae, 
Scophthalmidae, Citharidae), excl uding livers, caviar and roes 
0302 21        halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, Hippoglossus hippoglossus, Hippoglossus 
stenoplepis) 
0302 22    plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) 
0302 23 sole (Solea spp.) 
0302 29 megrim (Lepidorhombus spp.) and other tunas (of Thunnus genus), skipjack or stripe-bellied 
bonito (Euthynnus (Katsuwonus) pelamis), excluding livers, and roes: 
0302 31        albacore or long-finned tunas (Thunnus alalunga) 
0302 32        yellow-fin tunas (Thunnus albacares) 
0302 33        skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito 
0302 39        other tuna fishes 
0302 40        herrings (Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii), excluding livers and roes 
0302 50    cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus) excluding livers and roes 
 other fish excluding livers and roes 
0302 61        sardines (Sardinas pilchardus, Sardinop s spp.), sardinella (Sardinella  spp.), bristling or sprats 
(Sprattus sprattus) 
0302 62    haddock (M elanogrammus aeglefinus) 
0302 63 coalfish (Pollachius virens) 
0302 64 mackerel (Scomber scombrus, Scomber australasicus, Scomber japonicus) 
0302 65        dogfish, rough hounds and other sharks 
0302 66 000    eels (Anquilla spp.)  
0302 69        other freshwater and saltwater fish 
0302 70 livers and roes 
0303           Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of Heading 0304 
0303 10 Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, Oncorhynchus keta, 
Oncorhynchus tschawyscha, Oncorhynchu s kisutch, Oncorhynchus masou, and 
Oncohynchus rhodurus), excluding livers and roes 
0303 21 other salmonidae, excluding livers and roes 
0303 22  Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and Danube salmon (Hucho hucho) 
0303 29  other of salmon family flat fish (Pleuronectidae, Bothidae, Cynoglos sidae, Soleidae, 
Scophthalmidae, and Citharidae), excluding livers and roes 
0303 31 halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, Hippoglossus hippoglossus, Hippoglossus 
stenolepis): 
0303 32 plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) 
0303 33 sole (Solea spp.) 
0303 39 other in flatfish family tunas (of Thunnus genus), skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito 
(Euthynnus (Katsuwonus) pelamis), excluding livers, and roes: 
0303 41        albacore or long-finned tunas (Thunnus alalunga): 
0303 42        yellow-fin tunas (Thunnus albacares) 
0303 43        skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito 
0303 49       other tuna fish 
0303 50        herrings (Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii), excluding livers and roes 
0303 60        cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus), excluding livers and roes other 
fish excluding livers and roes  WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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0303 71        sardines (Sardina pilchardus, Sardinops  spp.), sardinella (Sardinella spp.), bristling or sprats 
(Sprattus sprattus): 
0303 72 haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) 
0303 73 coalfish (Pollachius virens) 
0303 74 mackerel (Scomber scombrus, Scomber australasicus, Scomber japonicus) 
0303 75 dogfish, rough hound, and other sharks 
0303 76 eels (Anguilla spp.) 
0303 77 sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax, Dicentrarchus punctatus) 
0303 7 hake (Merluccius spp., Urophycis spp.): 
0303 79 other freshwater and saltwater fish 
0303 80 livers, roes 
0304 Fish fillets and other fish meat (whether or not minced), fresh, chilled, or frozen 
0304 10  fresh or chilled 
0304 20 frozen fillets 
0304 90 surimi and other fish flesh including fillets 
0305 Fish, dried, salted, or in brine; smoked fish ; flours, meals, and pellets of fish fit for human 
consumption: 
0305 10 flours, meals, and pellets of fish, fit for human consumption 
0305 20 livers and roes, dried, smoked, salted, or in brine 
0305 30 fish fillets, dried, salted, or in brin e, but not smoked smoked fish, including fillets 
0305 41 of Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, Oncorhynchus keta, 
Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Oncorhynchus masou, and Oncorhynchus rhodurus), of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), and Danube salmon (Hucho 
hucho) 
0305 42 of herring (Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii) 
0305 49 other fish smoked, dried fish, whether or not salted, but not smoked 
0305 51 cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus) 
0305 59 other - salted fish, but not dried or smoked, fish in brine 
0305 61 herrings (Cupea harengus, Clupea pallasii) 
0305 62 cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus) 
0305 63 anchovies (Engraulis spp.) 
0305 69 other 
0306 Crustaceans, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, froz en, dried, salted or in brine; 
crustaceans, in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, whether or not chilled, 
frozen, dried, salted, or in brine; flours, m eals, and pellets of crustaceans, fit for human 
consumption:  frozen 
0306 11 rock lobster and other sea crawfish (Palinurus spp., Panulirus spp., Jasus spp.) 
0306 12 lobsters (Homarus spp.) 
0306 13 shrimps and prawns 
0306 14 crabs 
0306 19 other, including flours, meals, and pe llets of crustaceans, fit for human consumption 
 non-frozen 
0306 21 rock lobster and other sea crawfish (Palinurus spp., Panulirus spp., Jasus spp.) 
0306 22 lobsters (Homarus spp.) 
0306 23 shrimps and prawns 
0306 24 crabs: 
0306 29 other crustacea, including flours, meal s, and pellets of crustaceans, fit for human 
consumption 
0307 Molluscs, whether in shell or not, live, fres h, chilled, frozen, dried, salted, or in brine; 
aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, 
salted, or in brine; flours, meals, and pellets of aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans, 
fit for human consumption: 
0307 10 oysters live and other scallops, including queen scallops of the Pecten, Chlamys, or 
Placopecten genera 
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0307 29 coquilles St. Jacques (Pecten maximus), frozen and other mussels (Mytilus spp., Perna spp.) 
0307 31 live, fresh, or chilled 
0307 39 other cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis, Rossia macrosoma, Sepiola spp.) and squid 
(Ommastrephes spp., Loligo spp., Nototodarus spp., Sepioteuthis spp.) 
0307 41 live, fresh, or chilled 
0307 49 other cuttlefish and squid, frozen octopuses (Octopus spp.) 
0307 51 live, fresh, or chilled 
0307 59 frozen 
0307 60 snails, other than sea snails, other, including flours, meals, and pellets of other aquatic 
invertebrates, fit for human consumption 
0307 91 live, fresh, or chilled 
0307 99 other aquatic invertebrates 
Chapter 04 Dairy Produce; Birds' Eggs; Natural Honey; Edible Products of Animal Origin, not 
Specified or Included Elsewhere 
0401 Milk and cream, not concentrated nor containing added sugar or other sweetening matter: 
0401 10 with fat content not more than 1% by weight: 
0401 20 with fat content over 1%, but not more than 6% by weight 
0401 30 with fat content more than 6% by weight: 
0402 Milk and cream, concentrated or cont aining added sugar or other sweetening matter: 
0402 10 in powder, granules, or other solid forms, with fat content not more than 1.5% by weight 
0402 21 in powder, granules, or other solid forms, with fat content more than 1.5% by weight 
0402 29 other, condensed milk and cream 
0402 91 other, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter 
0402 99 other 
0403 Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yogurt, kefir, and other fermented or acidified milk and 
cream, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, or 
flavored, or containing added fruit, nuts, or cocoa: 
0403 10 yogurt 
0403 90 other 
0404 Whey, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter; 
products consisting of natural milk constituen ts, whether or not containing added sugar or 
other sweetening matter, not elsewhere specified or included: 
0404 10 whey and modified whey, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other 
sweetening matter 
0404 90 other 
0405 Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk: 
0405 10 butter with fat content less than 85% by weight 
0405 20 oils derived form milk with fat content more than 39%, but less than 80% by weight 
0405 90 other with fat content more than 99.3% by weight, and with water content not more than 
0.5% by weight 
0406 Cheese and curds: 
0406 10 fresh (unripened or uncured) cheese, including whey cheese and curd 
0406 20 grated or powder ed cheese, of all kinds 
0406 30 processed cheese, not grated or powdered 
0406 40 blue-veined cheese 
0406 90 other cheese 
0407 00 Birds' eggs, in shell, fresh, preserved, or cooked: for hatching: 
0408 Birds' eggs, not in shell, and egg yolks, fresh, dried, cooked by steaming or by boiling in 
water, moulded, frozen, or otherwise preserved, whether or not containing added sugar or 
other sweetening matter: egg yolks: 
0408 11    dried 
0408 19    other egg yolks 
    other: 
0408 91    dried 
0408 99    other  WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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0409    Natural honey 
0410    Food products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included 
Chapter 05 Products of Animal Origin , Not Elsewhere Specified or Included 
0502 Pigs', hogs', or boars' bristles and hair; ba dger hair and other brush making hair; waste of 
such bristles or hair: 
0502 10 pigs', hogs', or boars' bristles and hair and wastes thereof 
0502 90 other 
0503 00 Horsehair and horsehair wastes, whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting 
material 
0504 00 Guts, bladders, and stomachs of animals (oth er than fish), whole an d pieces, fresh, chilled, 
frozen, salted, in brine, dried, or smoked 
0505 Skins and other parts of birds, with their feathers or down, feathers and parts of feathers, 
(whether or not with trimmed edges) and down, not further worked than cleaned, 
disinfected, or treated for preser vation; powder and waste of feathers or parts of feathers: 
0505 10 feathers of the kind used for stuffing; down, unprocessed and other 
0505 90 other 
0506 Bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), treated 
with acid or degelatinized; powder and wastes of these products: 
0506 10 ossein and bo nes treated with acid 
0506 90 other 
0507 Ivory, tortoise-shell, whal ebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and 
beaks, unworked or subj ected to primary processing but not  to shape; powder and wastes of 
these products: 
0507 10 ivory, ivory powder and wastes 
0507 90 other 
0508 00 Corals and similar materials, unworked or subjected to primary processing, but not 
otherwise worked; shells of  molluscs, crustaceans, or echinoderms and cuttle-bone, 
unworked or subjected to primary processing, but not cut to shape, powder and wastes 
thereof 
0509 00 Natural sponges of animal origin 
0510 00 Ambergris, castoreum, civet and musk; cantharides; bile, whether or not dried; glands and 
other animal products used for making pha rmacy products, fresh, chilled, frozen, or 
otherwise provisionally preserved 
0511 Animal products not el sewhere specified or included ; dead animals of Chapter 01  or 03 , 
unfit for human consumption: 
0511 10 bovine semen 
0511 91 products of fish or crustaceans, molluscs, and other aquatic inverteb rates; dead animals of 
Chapter 03 : 
0511 99 other animal products not specified elsewhere sinews or tendons; parings and similar waste 
of raw hides or skins; embryos of bovine animals; other 
Chapter 12 Oil Seeds and Oleaginous Fruits ; Miscellaneous Grains, Seeds, and Fruit; 
Industrial or Medicinal Plants; Straw a nd Fodder (Note: used for pharmaceutical 
purposes or as insecticides, fungicides, herb icides, disinfectants, or for similar purposes 
in veterinary practice, as animal fodder or bedding) 
1201 00 Soya beans, whether or not broken 
1202 Ground-nuts, not roasted or otherwise cooked, whether or not shelled or broken 
1202 10 in shell 
1202 20 shelled, whether or not broken 
1203 00 Copra 
1204 00 Linseed, whether or not broken 
1205 00 Rape seeds, whether or not broken 
1206 00 Sunflower seeds, whether or not broken 
1207 Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken 
1208 Flours and meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruits, other than those of mustard WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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1211 Plants and parts of plants (including seeds and fruits), of the kind used primarily in 
perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal, or similar purposes, fresh or dried, whether or not cut, crushed, or powdered: 
1212 Locust beans, seaweed and other algae, suga r beet and sugar cane, fresh chilled, frozen, or 
dried, whether or not ground; fruit stones and kernels and other vegetable products 
(including unroasted chicory roots of Cichorium intybus sativum variety) of the kind used 
primarily for human consumption, no t elsewhere specified or included 
1213 00 000 Cereal straw and husks, unprepared, whether or not chopped, ground, pressed, or in the form 
of pellets 
1214 Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, lucerne (alfalfa), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, 
vetches, and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets 
1214 10 lucerne (alfalfa) meal and pellets 
1214 90  mangolds, sweeds, and other fodder roots 
Chapter 15 Animal or Vegetable Fats and Oils and Their Cleavage Products; Prepared Edible 
Fats; Animal or Vegetable Waxes 
1501 00 Pig fat (including lard) and poultry fat other than fat of Headings 0209 or 1503  
1502 00 Fats of bovine animals, sheep, or goats, other than fats of Heading 1503  
1503 00 Lard stearin, lard oil, oleostearin, oleo-oil, and tallow oil, not emulsified or mixed or 
otherwise prepared 
1504 Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish or marine mammals, whether or not refined, but not 
chemically modified 
1504 10 fish-liver oils and their fractions 
1504 20 fats and oils and their fractions, of fish, other than liver oils 
1504 30 fats and oils of marine mammals and their fractions 
1505 Wool grease and fatty substances derived therefrom (including lanolin): 
1505 10 wool grease, crude 
1505 90 other 
1506 00 Other animal fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically 
modified 
1516 Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated or 
elaidinized, whether or not refined, but not further prepared 
1517 Margarine; edible mixtures or  preparations of animal or vegeta ble fats or oils, or of fractions 
of different fats or oils of this Chapter, other than edible fats or oils or their fractions of 
Heading 1516  
1521 Vegetable waxes (other than triglycerides),  beeswax, other insect waxes and spermaceti, 
whether or not refined or colored 
1521 90 spermaceti, whether or not refined or colored beeswax and other insect waxes, whether or 
not refined or colored 
Chapter 16 Preparations of Meat, of Fish, or of Crustaceans, Molluscs, or Other Aquatic 
Invertebrates 
1601 00 Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, or blood; food preparations based on 
these products: 
1602 Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal, or blood: 
1602 10 homogenized preparations 
1602 20 of liver of any animal 
1602 31 of poultry in 0105  (turkey) 
1602 32 of fowls of Gallus domesticus species 
1602 39 other of poultry meat or offal of pork  
1602 41 hams and cuts thereof 
1602 42 shoulders and cuts thereof 
1602 49 other, including meat or offal of any type, including fats of any type or origin 
1602 50 of bovine animals 
1602 90 of game or rabbit, of reindeer, including preparations of blood of any animal 
1603 00 Extracts and juices of meat, fish, or crustaceans, molluscs, or other aquatic invertebrates  WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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1604 Prepared or preserved fish; caviar and cavi ar substitutes prepared from fish eggs:  fish, 
whole or in pieces, but not minced:  
1604 11 salmon 
1604 12 herring 
1604 13 sardines, sardinella, and bristling or sprats 
1604 14 tunas, skipjack, and bonito (Sarda spp.) 
1604 15 mackerel 
1604 16 anchovies 
1604 19 other 
1604 20 other prepared or preserved fish 
1604 30 caviar (sturgeon roe) and caviar substitutes (from other fish roe) 
1605 Crustaceans, molluscs, and other aquatic  invertebrates, prepared or preserved: 
1605 10 crabs 
1605 20 shrimps and prawns 
1605 30 lobster 
1605 40 other crustaceans 
1605 90 molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates 
Chapter 21 Miscellaneous Food Products 
2102 Yeast (active or inactive); other single- cell micro-organisms, dead (but not including 
vaccines of Heading 3002); prepared baking powders: 
2102 10 active yeast 
2102 20 inactive yeast; other d ead single-cell micro-organisms 
2104 Soups and broths and half-finished preparations thereof; homogenized finished food 
products: 
2104 10 soups and broths and half-finished preparations thereof  
2104 20 000 homogenized finished food products 
2105 00 Ice cream and other edible ic e, whether or not containing cocoa 
2106 Food products not elsewh ere specified or included: 
2106 10 protein concentrates and textured protein substances 
2106 90 cheese fondues and other food products 
Chapter 23 Residues and Wastes of Food Industries; Prepared Animal Fodder (Note: of the kind 
used as animal fodder) 
2301 Flours, meals, and pellets, of meat or meat o ffal, of fish, or of crustaceans, mollusks or other 
aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption; greaves: 
2301 10 flours, meals, and pellets, of meat or meat offal; greaves 
2301 20 flours, meals, and pellets, of fish or of crustaceans, mollusks or othe r aquatic invertebrates  
2302 Bran, sharps, and other residues, whether or not in the form of pellets, derived from the 
sifting, milling, or other working of cereals or of leguminous plants: 
2302 10 of maize (corn) 
2302 20 of rice 
2302 30 of wheat 
2302 40 of other cereals 
2302 50 of leguminous plants 
2303 Residues of starch manufacture and similar residues, beet-pulp, bagasse, and other wastes of 
sugar manufacture, brewing or distilling dregs an d wastes, whether or not in the form of 
pellets 
2303 10 residues of starch manufacture and similar residues 
2303 20 beet-pulp, bagasse, and other wastes of sugar manufacture 
2303 30 brewing or distilling dregs and wastes 
2304 00 Oil-cake and other solid residues, whether or  not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting 
from the extraction of soy-bean oil 
2305 00 Oil-cake and other solid residues, whether or  nor ground or in the form of pellets, resulting 
from the extraction of ground-nut oil 
2306 Oil-cake and other solid residues, whether or  not ground of in the form of pellets, resulting 
from the extraction of vegetable fats or oils, other than those of Headings 2304  or 2305:  WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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2306 10 of cotton seeds 
2306 20 of linseed 
2306 30 of sunflower seeds 
2306 40 of rape or colza seeds 
2306 50 of coconut or copra 
2306 60 of palm nuts or kernels 
2306 70 of maize (corn) germ 
2306 90 other oil-cakes 
2307 00 Wine lees; argol 
2308 Vegetable materials and vegetable waste, vegetable residues and by-products, whether or not 
in the form of pellets, of the kind used in animal feeding, not elsewhere specified or 
included: 
2308 10 acorns and horse-ches tnuts, grape marc, pomace and marc of other fruit 
2309 Products used as animal fodder: 
2309 10 dog or cat foods, put up for retail sale 
2309 90 other 
Chapter 29 (Note: for veterinary purposes only) 
 
 
2901 
2902 2903 
2904 
 I.  Hydrocarbons and Their Halogenated, Sulphonated, Nitrated, or Nitrosated 
Derivatives 
Acyclic hydrocarbons 
Cyclic hydrocarbons Halogenated derivatives of hydrocarbons  
Sulphonated, nitrated, or nitrosated derivatives of hydrocarbons, whether or not halogenated 
 
 
2905 
2906 II.  Alcohols and Their Halogenated, Sulphonated, Nitrated, or Nitrosated Derivatives 
Acyclic alcohols and their galogenated, sulphona ted, nitrated, or nitrosated derivatives  
Cyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated, or nitrosated derivatives  
 
 
2907 
2908 III.  Phenols, Phenol-Alcohols, and Their Halogenated, Sulphonated, Nitrated, or 
Nitrosated Derivatives 
Phenols; phenol-alcohols  
Halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated, or nitrosated derivatives of phenols or phenol-alcohols 
   
2909 
 
 
2910  
2911 00  
 IV.  Ethers, Alcohol Peroxides, Ether Peroxides, Ketone Peroxides, Epoxides with a 
Three-Member Ring, Acetals and He miacetals, and Their Halogenated, 
Sulphonated, Nitrated, or  Nitrosated Derivatives 
Ethers, ether-alcohols, ether phenols, ether-alcohol-phenols, alcohol peroxides, ether 
peroxides, ketone peroxides (whether or not chemically defined), and their  
halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated, or nitrosated derivatives  
Epoxides, epoxyalcohols, epoxyphenols, and epoxyethers, with a three-member ring, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated, or nitrosated derivatives  
Acetals and hemiacetals, whether or – not with other oxygen function, and their 
halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated, or nitrosated derivatives  
 2912  
2913 00  V.  Aldehyde-Function Compounds 
Aldehydes, whether or not with other oxygen function; cyclic polymers of aldehydes; paraformaldehyde  
Halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated, - or nitrosated derivatives of products of Heading 2912 
 
2914  VI.  Ketone-Function Compounds and Quinone-Function Compounds 
Ketones and quinones, whether or not with other oxygen function, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated, or nitrosated derivatives   WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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 2915 
 
2916  
 
2917  
2918 
 VII.  Carboxylic Acids and Their Anhydrides, Halides, Peroxides, Peroxyacids and Their 
Halogenated, Sulphonated, Nitrated, or Nitrosated Derivatives 
Saturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, and 
peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives  
Unsaturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids, cyclic monocarbolic acids and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated, or nitrosated 
derivatives  
Polycarboxylic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated, or nitrosated derivatives  
Carboxylic acids with additional oxygen function and their 
anhydrides, halides, peroxides, and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated, or nitrosated derivatives  
 
 
2919 00  
2920 VIII.  Esters of Inorgnaic Acids and Thei r Salts, Their Halogenated, Sulphonated, 
Nitrated, or Nitros ated Derivatives 
Phosphoric esters and their salts, including lactophosphates; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated, or nitrosated derivatives  
Esters of other inorganic acids (excluding esters of hydrogen halides) and their salts; their 
halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated, or nitrosated derivatives  
 2921 
2922 
2923 2924 
2925 
 2926 
2927 00 
2928 00  2929 IX.  Nitrogen-Function Compounds 
Amine-function compounds  
Oxygen-function amino-compounds  
Quaternary ammonium salts and hydroxides; lecithins and other phosphoaminolipids  Carboxyamide-function compounds; amide-function compounds of carbonic acid  
Carboxyimide-function compounds (including saccharin and its salts) and imine-function 
compounds  Nitrile-function compounds  
Diazo-, azo-, or azoxy-compounds  
Organic derivatives of hydrazine or of hydroxylamine Compounds with other nitrogen function  
 
 
2930 2931 00 
2932 
2933 2934 
2935 00 X.  Organo-Inorganic Compounds, Heterocyclic Compounds, Nucleic Acids and Their 
Salts, Sulphonamides 
Organo-sulphur compounds  Other organo-inorganic compounds  
Heterocyclic compounds with oxygen hetero-atom(s) only  
Heterocyclic compounds with nitrogen hetero-atom(s) only  Nucleic acids and their salts; other heterocyclic compounds  
Sulphonamides  
 
2936  
 
2937  XI.  Provitamins, Vitamins, and Hormones 
Provitamins and vitamins, natural or reproduced by synthesis (including natural concentrates), derivatives thereof used prim arily as vitamins, and intermixtures of the 
foregoing,whether or not in any solvent  
Hormones, natural or reproduced by synthesis; derivatives thereof, used primarily as hormones; other steroids used primarily as hormones 
  
2938 
 
2939 XII.  Glycosides and Vegetable Alkaloids, Natural or Reproduced by Synthesis, and 
Their Salts, Ethers, Esters, and Other Derivatives 
Glycosides, natural or reproduced by synthesis, and their salts, ethers, esters, and other 
derivatives  
Vegetable alkaloids, natural or reproduced by synthesis, their salts, ethers, esters, and other 
derivatives  
 2940 00  
2941 
2942 00 XIII.  Other Organic Compounds 
Sugars, chemically pure, other than sucrose, lactose, maltose, glucose, and fructose; sugar ethers and sugar esters and their salts, other than products of Heading 2937
, 2938  or 2939  
Antibiotics  
Other organic compounds WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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3001 
 
  
3002 
 
 
 3003 
 
  
3004 
  
3005 
  
3006 Glands and other organs for organo-therapeutic uses, dried, whether or not powdered; 
extracts of glands or other organs or of their secretions for organo-therapeutic uses; heparin 
and its salts; other human or animal substances prepared for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, not elsewhere speci fied or included  
Human blood; animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; 
antisera and other blood fractions and modified immunological products, whether or not 
obtained by means of biotechnological processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-
organisms (excluding yeasts) and      similar products  Medicaments (excluding goods of Heading 3002
, 3005  or 3006 ) consisting of two or more 
constituents which have been mixed 
together for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, not put up in measured doses or in forms or package for retail sale  
Medicaments (excluding goods of Heading 3002
, 3005  or 3006 ) consisting of mixed or 
unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses or in forms or package for retail sale  
Wadding, gauze, bandages, and similar articles (for example, dressing, adhesive plasters, 
poultices), impregnated or coated with pharm aceutical substances or put up in forms or 
package for retail trade for medical, surgi cal, dental, or veterinary purposes  
Pharmaceutical goods  
-sterile surgical catgut, similar sterile sutu re materials and sterile tissue adhesives for 
surgical wound closure;  
-sterile laminaria and sterile laminaria tents;  
-sterile absorbable surgical or dental haemostatics: -opacifying preparations for X -ray examinations and diagnostic  reagents designed to be 
administered to the patient, i.e. non-mixe d products in measured doses or products 
consisting of two or more constituents mixed for such use; 
-blood-grouping reagents; 
-dental cements and other dental fillings; bone reconstruction cements -first-aid boxes and kits  
-chemical contraceptive preparations based on hormones or spermicides 
Chapter 35 Albuminous Substances; Modified Starches; Glues; Enzymes 
3501 
3501 10 
3501 90 3502 
 
 3502 11 
3502 19 
3502 20 3502 90 
3503 00 
  
3504 00 
 
3507 
3507 10 3507 90 Casein, caseinates, and other casein derivatives; casein glues: 
-casein: 
-casein glues and others Albumins (including concentrates of two or more whey proteins, containing by weight more 
than 80% whey proteins, calculated on the dry matter), albumines and other albumin 
derivatives: -egg albumin dried 
-egg albumin other: 
-milk albumin, including concentrates of two or more whey proteins: -other albumins, other than egg albumin and milk albumin (lactalbumin)  
Gelatin (including gelatin in rectangular (inc luding square) sheets, whether or not surface-
worked or colored) and gelatin derivatives; isinglass; other glues of animal origin, excluding casein glues of Heading 3501
 
Peptones and their derivatives; other protein substances and their derivatives, not elsewhere 
specified or included; hide powder, whether or not chromed  
Enzymes; prepared enzymes not el sewhere specified or included: 
-rennet and concentrates thereof  -other                                                 WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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(Note: for veterinary purposes only, plus di sinfectants, disinsectants and deratization 
substances) 
3801  
3802 
 
3803 00 
3804 00  
 
3805  
 
3806 3807 00 
 
3808  
 
 3821 00 
3822 00 Artificial graphite; colloidal or semi-colloidal graphite;  preparations based on graphite or 
other carbon in the form of pastes, blocks, plates, or other semi-manufactures  
Activated carbon; activated natural mineral pr oducts; animal black, including spent animal 
black: 
Tall oil, whether or not refined: 
Residual lyes from manufacture of wood pulp, whether or not              concentrated, desugared or chemically treated, including lignine sulphonates, but excluding tall oil of 
Heading 3803  
Gum, wood, or sulphate turpentine and other terpenic oils produced by distillation or other treatment of coniferous woods; crude dipentene; sulphite turpentine and other crude para-
cymene; pine oil containing alpha-terpineol as the main constituent  
Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums Wood tar; wood tar oils; wood creosote; wood naphtha; vegetable pitch; brewers' pitch and 
similar preparations based on rosin, resin acids, or on vegetable pitch 
Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products, and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packages for retail sale, or 
as preparations or articles (for example, sulp hur-treated bands, wicks, and candles, and fly-
papers)  Prepared culture media for development of microorganisms 
Diagnostic or laboratory reagents on a backing and prepared diagnostic or laboratory 
reagents, whether or not on a backing, other than  those of Heading 3002
 or 3006  
Chapter 41 Raw Hides and Skins (Other Than Furskins) and Leather 
4101 
 
 
4101 10  
 
4101 21 4101 22 
4101 29 
4101 30 4101 40 
 
4102  
 
4103  
 
4103 10 4103 20 
4103 90 
4104 Raw hides and skins of bovine or equine animals (fresh or salted, dried, limed, pickled, or 
otherwise preserved, but not tanned, parchment-dressed, or further prepared), whether or not 
dehaired or split: 
-whole hides and skins of bovine animals, with the weight per skin not more than 8 kg when simply dried, 10 kg when dry-salted, or 14 kg when fresh, wet-salted, or otherwise preserved 
-other hides or skins of bovine animals, fresh or wet-salted: 
--whole  -butts and bends 
-other  
-other hides and skins of bovine animals, otherwise preserved -hides or skins of equine animals  
Raw skins of sheep or lambs (fresh or salted, dried, limed, pickled, or otherwise preserved, 
but not tanned, parchment-dressed, or further prepared), whether or not with wool on or split, other than those excluded by Note 1c to this Chapter  
Other raw hides and skins (fresh or salted, dried, limed, pickled, or otherwise preserved, but 
not tanned, parchment-dressed, or further prepar ed), whether or not dehaired or split, other 
than those excluded by Note 1b or 1c
 to this Chapter 
-of goats or kids 
-of reptiles -other        
Leather of bovine or equine animals, without hair on, other than leather of heading 4108
 or 
4109  
4104 10  
4104 21 
4104 22 4104 29 
4104 31 
4104 39 4105 
 
 -Leather of bovine or equine animals tanned or retanned but not further prepared whether 
or not with wool on or split  
-bovine leather, vegetable pre-tanned 
-bovine leather, otherwise pre-tanned -other         
-full grains and full grain splits bovine leather 
-other Sheep or lamb skin leather, without wool on, other than leather of Heading 4108
 or 4109  
-tanned or retanned, but not further prepared, whether or not split 
-vegetable pre-tanned  WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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Code Name of Heading 
4105 11 
4105 12 4105 19 
4105 20 
4106  
 
4106 11 4106 12 
4106 19 
4106 20 4107 
 
4107 10 4107 21 
4107 29 
4107 90 
4111 00 -otherwise pre-tanned: 
-other parchment-dressed or prepared after tanning 
Goat or kid skin leather, without hair on, other than leather of Heading 4108
 or 4109  
-tanned or retanned, but not further prepared, whether or not split: -vegetable pre-tanned  
-otherwise pre-tanned  
-other                                              -parchment-dressed or prepared after tanning 
Leather of other animals, without hair on, other than leather of Heading 4108
 or 4109:  
-of swine -of reptiles –vegetable pre-tanned                                
-other- not further prepared than tanned                  
-of other animals  Composition leather with a basis of leather or leather fiber, in slabs, sheets, or strip, 
whether or not in rolls 
Chapter 42 Articles of Leath er; Saddlery and Harness; Trav el Goods, Handbags, and Similar 
Containers; Articles of Animal  Gut (Other Than Silkworm Gut) 
4206 
4206 10 4206 90 Articles of gut (other than silkworm gut), of goldbeater's skin, of bladders, or of tendons: 
-catgut  -other                                                
Chapter 51 Wool, Fine or Coarse Animal Hair; Horsehair Yarn and Woven Fabric 
5101 5101 11 
5101 19 
5101 21 5101 29 
5101 30 
5102 5102 10 
 
 5102 20 
5103 
 
5103 10 
5103 20 5103 30  Wool, not carded or combed: 
-greasy, including fleece-washed wool  
-other greasy wool including fleece-washed wool degreased,  
-degreased shorn wool not carbonized  -other shorn wool not carbonized 
-carbonized                                           
Fine or coarse animal hair, nor carded or combed: -fine animal hair Angora rabbit of alpaca, llama, or vicuna                         
-of camel or yak, or of Angora, Tibetan, Kashmir, or similar goats 
-of rabbit (other than Angora rabbit), hare, beaver, nutria, or musk-rat  -coarse animal hair  
Waste of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair, including yarn waste, but excluding 
garnetted stock: 
-noils of wool or of fine animal hair whether carbonized or not      
-other waste of wool or of fine animal hair, other carbonized and not-carbonized  -waste of coarse animal hair           
Chapter 97 Works of Art, Co llectors' Pieces, and Antiques 
9705 00 000 Collections and coll ectors' pieces of zoological, botan ical, mineralogical, anatomical, 
historical, archaeological, palaeontological, ethnographic, or numismatic interest 
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List of Goods Subject to Quarantine and Phytosanitary Control  
 
 The Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Fe deration has prepared the following draft List of 
Products (Materials, Cargoes, Goods) Subject to  Quarantine and Phytosanitary Control. While 
importing these goods into the customs territory of  the Russian Federation and exporting them from 
the territory of the Russian Federati on the following HS codes are applied. 
 
Code Name of Heading 
Group 06 Live Trees and Other Plants; Bulb s, Roots, and the Li ke; Cut Flowers and 
Ornamental Foliage 
0601      Bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns, and rhizomes, dormant, in growth, or in 
flower; chicory plants and roots other than roots of Heading 1212.  
0602      Other live plants (including their roots), cuttings and slips; mushroom spawn: 
0603      Cut flowers and flower buds of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes, 
fresh, dried, dyed, bleached, impre gnated, or otherwise prepares. 
0604     Foliage, branches, and other parts of plants, without flowers or flower buds, and grasses, 
mosses and lichens, being goods of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes, fresh, dried, dyed, bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared. 
Group 07  Edible Vegetables and Certain Roots and Tubers 
0701         Potatoes, fresh or chilled. 
0702 00   Tomatoes, fresh or chilled. 
0703        Onions, shallots, garlic, leeks, and other alliaceous vegetables, fresh or chilled. 
0704        Cabbages, cauliflowers, kohlrabi, kale, and similar edible brassicas, fresh or chilled. 
0705         Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) and chic ory (Cichorium spp.), fresh or chilled: -lettuce. 
0706        Carrots, turnips, salad beetroot, sals ify, celeriac, radishes, and similar edible roots, fresh 
or chilled. 
0707 Cucumbers and gherkins, fresh or chilled. 
0708           Leguminous vegetables , shelled or unshelled, fresh or chilled. 
0709           Other vegetables, fresh or chilled. 
0712           Dried vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken, or in powder, but not further prepared. 
0713           Dried leguminous vegetabl es, shelled, whether or  not skinned or split. 
From 0714 Manioc, arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes, and similar roots and 
tubers with high starch or inulin content, fre sh, chilled, frozen, or dried, whether or not 
sliced or in the form of pellets; sago pith. 
Group 08 Edible Fruit and Nuts; Peel  of Citrus Fruits or Melons 
0801          Coconuts, Brazil nuts, and cashew nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled. 
0802          Other nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled.  
0803         Bananas, including plantains, fresh or dried. 
0804           Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes, and mangosteens, fresh or dried. 
0805           Citrus fruit, fresh or dried. 
0806           Grapes, fresh or dried. 
0807           Melons (including watermelons) and papaws (papayas), fresh. 
0808           Apples , pears, and quinces, fresh: 
0809           Apricots, cherries, peaches,  (including nectarines), plums, and sloes, fresh. 
0810           Other fruit, fresh. 
0813           Dried fruits, other than those of Headings 0801-0806 ; mixtures of nuts or dried fruits of 
this Chapter. 
Group 09 Coffee, Tea, Mate, and Spices 
From 0901    Coffee, whether or not roasted or  decaffeinated. 
0902 Tea, whether or not flavored. 
0903   Mate 
0904 - 0910    Spices WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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Code Name of Heading 
Group 10 Cereals 
1001           Wheat and meslin. 
1002 00 000    Rye.  
1003 00        Barley. 
1004 00 000    Oats  
1005           Maize (corn). 
1006           Rice: 
1007 00        Grain sorghum. 
1008           Buckwheat, mi llet, and canary seed; other cereals. 
Group 11  Products of the Milling Indust ry; Malt; Starches; In ulin; Wheat Gluten 
1101 00        Wheat or meslin flour. 
1102           Cereal flour other than of wheat or meslin. 
1103           Cereal groats, meal, and pellets. 
1104           Cereal grain otherwise worked (e.g., hulled, rolled, flaked, pearled, sliced, or kibbled), 
except for rice of Heading 1006;  germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked, or ground: -
rolled or flaked grains. 
1105           Flour, meal, powder, flakes, granules, and pellets of potatoes. 
1106           Flour and meal of dried leguminous vegetables of Heading 0713 , of sago or of roots or 
tubers of Heading 0714,  or products of Chapter 08.  
1107           Malt, whether or not roasted. 
1108 Starches. 
Group 12 Oil Seeds and Oleaginous Fruits; Miscellaneous Grains, Seeds, and Fruit; 
Industrial or Medicinal Plants; Straw and Fodder 
1201 00        Soya beans, whether or not broken. 
1202           Ground-nuts, not roasted or otherwise cooked, whether or not shelled or broken. 
1203 00 000    Copra  
1204 00        Linseed, whether or not broken. 
1205 00        Rape seeds, whether or not broken . 
1206 00        Sunflower seeds, whether or not broken. 
1207           Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken. 
1208           Flours and meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruits, other than those of mustard. 
1209           Seeds, fruit, and spores, of the kind used for sowing. 
From 1210 Hop cones, fresh or dried, whether or not ground, powdered or in the form of pellets. 
1211           Plants and parts of plants (including seeds and fruits), of the kind used primarily in 
perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal, or similar purposes, fresh or dried, whether or not cut, crushed, or powdered. 
From 1212  Locust beans, seaweeds and other alg ae, sugar beet and sugar cane, fresh chilled, frozen, 
or dried, whether or not ground; fruit stones and kernels and other vegetable products 
(including unroasted chicory roots of Cichorium intybus sativum variety) of the kind used primarily for human consumption, not elsewhere specified or included. 
From 1213 00 Cereal straw and husks, unprepared, whether or not chopped, ground, pressed, or in the 
form of pellets. 
From 1214 Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, lucerne (alfalfa), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, 
lupines, vetches, and  similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets. 
Group 13  Lac; Gums, Resins, and Other Vegetable Saps and Extracts 
From 1301 Lac; natural gum, resins, gum-resins and balsams. 
Group 14 Vegetable Plaiting Ma terials; Vegetable Products  Not Elsewhere Specified or 
Included 
1401           Vegetable materials of the kind used primarily for plaiting (e.g. bamboos, rattans, reeds, 
riches, osier, raffia, cleaned, bleached or  dyed cereal straw, and lime bark). 
1402           Vegetable materials of the kind used primarily as stuffing or as padding (e.g. kapok, 
vegetable hair, and eel-grass), whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting material. 
1403           Vegetable materials of the kind used primarily in brooms or in brushes (e.g. broomcorn, 
piassava, couch- grass, and istle), whether or not in hanks or bundles: 1404 10 000   -raw  WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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  Code Name of Heading 
vegetable materials of the kind used primarily in dying or tanning. 
1404 20 000    Cotton linters. 
Group 17  Sugar and Sugar Confectionery 
1701 11        Cane sugar. 
1701 12        Beet sugar. 
Group 18  Cocoa and Cocoa Preparations 
1801 00 000    Cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted. 
1802 00 000    Cocoa shells, husk s, skins, and  other cocoa waste. 
Group 19  Preparations or Cereals, Flour,  Starch, or Milk; Pastrycooks' Products 
1903 00 000    Tapioca. 
Group 23  Residues and Waste From Food  Industries; Prepared Animal Fodder 
2302           Bran, sharps, and other residues, whether or not in the form of pellets, derived from the 
sifting, milling, or other working of cereals or of leguminous plants. 
2303           Residues of starch manufacture and similar residues, beet-pulp, bagasse, and other waste 
of sugar manufacture, brewing or distilling dr egs and waste, whether or not in the form 
of pellets. 
2304 00 000  Oil-cake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, 
resulting from the extraction of soys-bean oil. 
2305 00 000    Oil-cake and other solid residues,  whether or nor ground or in the form of pellets, 
resulting from the  extraction of ground-nut oil. 
2306           Oil-cake and other solid residues, whether or not ground of in the form of pellets, 
resulting from the extraction of vegetable fats or oils, other than those of Headings 2304  
or 2305.  
2308          Vegetable materials and vegetable waste, vegetable residues and by-products, whether or 
not in the form of pellets, of the kind used in animal feeding, not elsewhere specified or 
included. 
Group 24 Tobacco and Manufac tured Tobacco Substitutes 
2401           Unmanufact ured tobacco; tobacco  refuse. 
Group 27  Mineral Fuels, Mineral Oils, and Products of Their Distillation; Bituminous 
Substances; Mineral Waxes 
2703 00 000    Peat (including peat litter), whether or not agglomerated. 
Group 30 Pharmaceutical Products 
3002 90 500    Cultures of micro-organisms.  
Group 31  Fertilizers 
3101 00 000    Animal or vegetable fertilizers, wh ether or not mixed together or chemically treated; 
fertilizers produced by mixing or chemical treatment of animal or vegetable products. 
Group 41  Raw Hides and Skins (Other Than Furskins) and Leather 
4101-4103      Raw hides and skins of bovine or equine animals, raw skins of sheep or lambs or other 
raw hides and skins, other than those excluded by Note 1b or 1c  to this Chapter: fresh or 
salted, dried, limed, pickled, or otherwise preserved, but not tanned, parchment-dressed, 
or further prepared), whether or not dehaired or split. 
Group 44  Wood and Articles of Wood; Wood Charcoal 
From 4401     Fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots, or in similar forms; wood in chips, or 
particles; sawdust and wood waste and scrap. 
4403           Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared. 
4404           Hoopwood; split poles; piles, pickets, and stakes, of wood, pointed but not sawn 
lengthwise; wooden sticks, roughly trimmed but not turned, bent, or otherwise worked, 
suitable for making walking-sticks, umbrellas, tool handles, or the like; chipwood and the like. 
4406 10 000   Railway or tramway sleepers (cross- ties), of wood: not impregnated. 
4407           Wood, sawn or chipped lengthwise , sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded, or 
finger-jointed, with th ickness exceeding 6 mm. 
4408           Veneer sheets and sheets for plywood (whether or not spliced) and other wood sawn 
lengthwise, sliced or peeled , whether or not planed, sanded, or finger-jointed, with 
thickness not more than 6 mm. WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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Code Name of Heading 
4409           Wood (including strips and fri ezes for parquet flooring, not  assembled) continuously 
shaped (tongued, grooved, rebated, chamfered, V-jointed, beaded, moulded, rounded or the like) along any of its edge s or faces, whether or not plan ed, sanded, or finger-jointed. 
4415           Packing cases, boxes, crates, drums, and similar packings, of wood; cable-drums of 
wood; pallets, box pallets, and other load boards, of wood; pallet collars of wood. 
4416 00        Casks, barrels, vats, tubs, and other coopers' products and parts thereof, of wood, 
including staves. 
4418           Builders' joinery and carpentry, of wood, including cellular wood panels, assembled 
parquet panels, shingles and shakes. 
Group 45  Cork and Articles of Cork 
4501           Natural cork, raw or simply pr epared; waste cork; crushed, granulated or ground cork. 
Group 46  Manufactures of Straw, of Esparto, or of Other Plaiting Ma terials; Basketware and 
Wickerwork 
From 4601  Plaits and similar products of plaiting materials. 
From 4602  
Group 47  Pulp of Wood or of Other Fibrous Cellulosic Material; Recovered (Waste And 
Scarp) Paper or Paperboard 
4701 00 900    Mechani cal wood pulp: thermo-mechan ical wood pulp, other. 
Group 48  Paper and Paperboa rd; Articles of Paper Pulp, of Paper, or of Paperboard 
4808 10 000    Corrugated paper and paperboard, whether or not perforated. 
4819 10 000    Cartons, boxes, and cases, of corrugated paper or paperboard. 
Group 50  Silk 
5001 00 000    Silk-worm cocoons suitable for reeling. 
5003           Silk waste (including cocoons unsuitable for reeling, yarn waste and garnetted stock). 
Group 51  Wool, Fine or Coarse Animal Hair; Horsehair Yarn and Woven Fabric 
5101 – 5102 Wool, fine or coarse animal hair not carded or combed. 
5103           Waste of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair, including yarn waste, but excluding 
garnetted stock. 
Group 52  Cotton 
5201 00        Cotton, not carded or combed. 
5202          Cotton waste (including yarn waste and garnetted stock): 
5203 00 000    Cotton, carded or combed  
Group 53  Other Vegetable Textile Fibres; Pa per Yarn and Woven Fabrics or Paper Yarn 
5301 Flax, raw or processed, but not spun; flax tow and waste (including yarn waste and 
garnetted stock). 
5302  True hemp (Cannabis sativa L.), raw or processed, but not spun; tow and waste of true 
hemp (including yarn waste and garnetted stock). 
5303 Jute and other textile bast fibres (excluding flax, true hemp, and ramie), raw or 
processed, but not spun; tow and waste of these fibres (including yarn waste and 
garnetted stock). 
5304 Sisal and other textile fibres of Agave genus, raw or processed, but not spun; tow and 
waste of these fibres (including yarn waste and garnetted stock). 
5305 Coconut, abaca (Manila hemp or Musa te xtilis Nee), ramie and other vegetable textile 
fibres, not elsewhere specified or included, raw or processed, but not spun; tow, noils, and waste of these fibres (including yarn wa ste and garnetted stock): of coconut (coir). 
Group 96  Miscellaneous Manufactured Articles 
9603 10 000    Brooms and brushes, consisting of twigs or other vegetable materials bound together, 
with or without handles-tooth brushes, shaving brushes, hair brushes, nail brushes, 
eyelash brushes, and other toilet brushes for use on the person, including such brushes making part of appliances. 
Group 97  Works of Art, Co llectors' Pieces, and Antiques 
9705 00 000    Collections and coll ectors' pieces of zoological, botanical. 
 In addition to Goods Nomenclature 
No code  Soil in any form 
No code All types of transport  WT/ACC/SPEC/RUS/21 
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  Code Name of Heading 
No code Jute sackcloth packaging in goods consignments 
No code Deep soil minerals and ground samples 
No code River and sea sand 
No code Sea, river, and lake floor ground samples 
No code Spices 
No code Live insects, ticks and spiders for breeding and research 
No code Live samples of bacteria, mushrooms,  viruses, live ticks, hookworms for scientific 
research purposes 
No code Henna and basma 
No code Mixed fodder 
 
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REFERENCE PAPER 12
 
  
Activities Subject to Licensing
 
  The list of activities subject to licensing, aims and basic principals of licensing, and licensing 
procedure requirements are strictly  determined by the Federal Law № 158-FZ of 25 September 1998 
On Licensing of Certain Types of Activities
2. 
  Licensing of certain types of activity is ai med at ensuring a single state policy in the 
regulation and protection of the cons umers' rights and legal interests, morale and health, the ensuring 
of the security of the state.    Complete list of activities subject to licensing is stated in the Federal Law № 158-FZ of 
25 September 1998 On Licensing of Certain Types of Activities (Table 1).  
 
 For obtaining a license an applicant shall s ubmit to the relevant licensing body the following 
documents:  1.  An application for the issuance of a license with the indication of:  
- the name and the legal-organizational form of th e juridical person, its location, the name of 
the bank and the number of the settlement account in the bank for a juridical person; 
- the full name, the data of the identity paper of  the citizen - for an individual businessman; 
- the name of activity which the juridical person or the individual businessman intend to carry 
out, and the period of time during which the indicated activity will be carried out. 
 
2.   Copies of the constituent documents and a co py of the certificate on the state registration of 
the licensee as a juridical person (with the presen tation of the originals in the case that the 
copies have not been notarized) - for juridical persons. 
 3.   A copy of the certificate on the state regist ration of the citizen as an individual businessman 
(with the presentation of the original in the case  that the copy has not been notarized) - for 
individual businessmen. 
 4.  A reference on the registration of the licensee with the tax body.  
5.  A document confirming the payment by the applicant for the license of the fee for the 
consideration by the licensing body of the a pplication of the applicant for the license. 
  
                                                     
 
 
2 The types of activity which have not been included in the Federal Law № 158-FZ may be subject to 
licensing in accordance with other federal laws which en tered into force before the entry into force of this 
Federal Law. The particularities of licensing of types of activity requiring licensing according to other federal laws are indicated it the Table 2.