Russia: Eurasian Economic Union Ag Times No 2 of 2020

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This report contains summaries of relevant decisions and documents from the Armenia-Belarus-Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan-Russia Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) meetings, published between May 19 and November 20, 2020, that impact EAEU food and agriculture policy. Key documents included herein are Protocols deferring scheduled import tariff increases for agricultural items for Armenia and Kyrgyzstan from 2020 to 2021, a number of EAEU SPS and TBT measures that were notified to the WTO by EAEU members and the EEC Collegium decision No. 102 establishing EAEU tariff-rate quotas for 2021.

Russia: Eurasian Economic Union Ag Times No 2 of 2020

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