Belarusian Officials Make a List of Claims to Russia :: Charter'97 :: News

Belarus is forming a list of claims to Russia in a mutual trade. This document is a reciprocal one towards Russian partners and is worked up with the aim to mutually acceptable settlement of trade and economic issues between the countries. It was stated by a deputy foreign minister of Belarus Andrei Eudachenka at a session of Industry Ministry.

Addressing managerial corps of the country, he proposed commodity producer making suggestions concerning the practice, norms and principles of granting industrial subsidies, and also provisions for national regime of state purchases.

In their work at Russian market our manufacturers face incidents of illegal subsidies to their Russian rival companies at the federal or regional level. Belarusian Foreign Ministry asks to inform about such facts, and about any other technical and administrative barriers which Belarusian products promotion stumbles upon in Russia. Unequal conditions in trade are also created by “imposing some additional fees connected with our goods storing in Russian warehouses or with transporting goods through the neighbouring country,” Andrei Eudachenka said.

The deputy minister has also reminded that Belarus and Russia recently initialled an agreement on creation of equal conditions for economic entities of Belarus and Russia. This document includes a list of mutual claims which had been studies in the framework of a commission on tariff and non-tariff management of the economy by the Council of Ministers of the “union state”.

That list was mainly formed by Russian manufacturers and companies, and their numerous associations and unions which are very active at the Russian and foreign market now, the deputy minister noted. That is why the Belarusian side is to form a list of its claims as well.

However, the deputy foreign minister emphasized that there is no “trade war” between Belarus and Russia. “We have started a normal systemized work wit our Russian partners, that’s all. And now we are working in a mode of a non-stop negotiations room,” Andrei Eudachenka said.