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Letter of the Federal Service for Veterinary

Official title

Letter of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance as of 5 November 2025 No. FS-KS-7/21811

Russia notified this emergency SPS measure on 13 November 2025. Emergency measures can apply immediately.

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Products

Live swine; meat of swine; meat and edible meat offal; swine embryos and boar semen; hunting trophies; maintenance, slaughter and processing equipment used of 0502; of 0511; 1601*; 1602*; 843680; 843850; 970529) * With exception of prepared heat-treated

HS codes
  • 01 · Animals; live
    • 0103 Live swine
  • 02 · Meat and edible meat offal
    • 0203 Meat of swine, fresh, chilled or frozen
    • 020630 Fresh or chilled edible offal of swine
    • 020910 Pig fat, free of lean meat, not rendered or otherwise extracted, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked
    • 0210 Meat and edible offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal
  • 05 · Animal originated products; not elsewhere specified or included
    • 0502 Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair; badger hair and other brush making hair; waste of such bristles or hair
    • 0511 Animal products n.e.s. dead animals of all types, unfit for human consumption
All 12 codes
  • 16 · Meat, fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or insects; preparations thereof
    • 1601 Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products.
    • 1602 Prepared or preserved meat, meat offal, blood or insects (excl. sausages and similar products, and meat extracts and juices)
  • 84 · Machinery and mechanical appliances, boilers, nuclear reactors; parts thereof
    • 843680 Agricultural, horticultural, forestry or bee-keeping machinery, n.e.s.
    • 843850 Machinery for the industrial preparation of meat or poultry (excl. cooking and other heating appliances and refrigerating or freezing equipment)
  • 97 · Works of art; collectors' pieces and antiques
    • 970529 Collections and collectors’ pieces of zoological, botanical, mineralogical, anatomical or paleontological interest (excl. human specimens and parts thereof…
Notifying member
Russia(Russian Federation)
Status
Emergency measure, may already apply
Objectives
  • Animal health
Area
SPS: Food safety, animal and plant healthSanitary and phytosanitary measures
Notification type
Emergency notifications (SPS)
Document symbol
G/SPS/N/RUS/338
Keywords
African swine fever (ASF), Animal diseases, Animal health

Key dates

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Comment deadline
Not set in the notification
Proposed adoption
Not set in the notification
Proposed entry into force

How to comment

The notification sets no comment deadline. To comment, contact your country's WTO SPS enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/RUS/338; it forwards comments to Russia.

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What the notification says

This letter introduces temporary restrictions on the imports of live swine and products obtained thereof, hunting trophies and equipment to the Russian Federation, as well as on the transit of live swine through the territory of the Russian Federation from Chinese Taipei due to the registration of outbreaks of African swine fever (ASF) in Chinese Taipei.

Sources

Expodite writes its summary from the official record. The notification and the documents it notifies are on the WTO's own websites.

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