ARMENIA’S ECONOMY MINISTRY EXPLAINING RESTRICTIONS APPLIED WITHIN EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION TO COMMODITY TURNOVER WITH THIRD COUNTRIES
YEREVAN, December 30. /ARKA/. Armenia’s economy ministry explained
today the restrictions applied within the Eurasian Economic Union to
commodity turnover with third countries.
The ministry’s press office says that Armenia, applying nontariff
regulation instruments, is guided by the provisions of the Eurasian
Economic Union Treaty.
In particular, the treaty implies particular restrictions and bans
for imports into the Eurasian Economic Union from third countries
and exports from the union to third countries.
The restrictions are obligatory to all the members of the union. They
apply to particular groups of goods, such as civilian and service
weapons, narcotics, dangerous wastes and exotic species.
The whole list is available on the websites of the ministry and
the Eurasian Economic Commission. The aim of such restrictions is
to protect markets, local commodity producers, states, environment
and member countries’ residents and in compliance with international
agreements.
Even before joining the Eurasian Economic Union Armenia applied
appropriate restrictions to many of the listed commodities in
compliance with its international agreements.
To ensure unified approaches, the government set up competent
commissions for dealing with all the groups of goods and regulating
licensing processes in each of these groups.
The government also gave its approval to procedures of licensing and
authorization for importing and exporting gods and the lists of the
commodities subject to restrictions and bans.
Special characteristics of domestic market protection in the Eurasian
Economic Union have been taken into account in composing these lists
and regulation instruments for each particular country of the union
have been specified. For example, it is prohibited to export particular
kinds of woody materials from Kazakhstan. –0—-