Construction equipment in 10th package of EU sanctions against Russia

On 25th February the Council adopted the 10th package of EU sanctions against Russia. For the first time several types of construction equipment are included in the list.

For more details, please find here the full text of the regulations giving effect to the new set of measures. Please refer to pages 264 and following for the detailed customs codes.

The measures, among others, include:

Export bans on hundreds of products which can be redirected to Russian war efforts:

  • Vehicles, such as heavy trucks not yet banned (and their spare parts), semi-trailers, and special vehicles such as snowmobiles;
  • Goods easily directed to the Russian military, including, for example, electric generators, binoculars, antennas,  radars, compass;
  • Construction goods such as bridges, structures for buildings tower-like, fork-lifts trucks, cranes; goods that are critical for the functioning and enhancement of Russian industrial capacity (electronics, machine parts, pumps, machinery for working metals, etc.);
  • Complete industrial plants, equipment for production of electronics, machinery for processing materials, crystal pullers, furnaces,  machine tools, electrodes and software.
  • Goods used in the aviation industry (for instance, turbojets and turbo propellers).

Export bans and restrictions on sensitive dual use and advanced technologies:

  • Additional electronic components used in Russian weapons systems (drones, missiles, helicopters, other vehicles), as well as bans on specific rare earths and thermal cameras with military applications
  • Products, such as cells, software, optics, laser, semiconductors or integrated circuits, among other products.
  • 96 additional entities associated to Russia's military-industrial complex have been added to the list of military end-users. This also includes, for the first time, seven Iranian entities that have been using EU components and providing Russia with military "Shahed" drones to attack civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.

Additional import bans. The regulation imposes a ban on imports of:

  • bitumen and related materials like asphalt
  • synthetic rubber and carbon blacks (Annex VI).

 

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