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RussiaEmergency measure, may already applyEmergency

Letter of the Federal Service for Veterinary

Official title

Letter of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance No. FS-ARe-7/7094-3 as of 11 March 2026

Russia notified this emergency SPS measure on 18 March 2026. Emergency measures can apply immediately.

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Products

Live poultry and products derived thereof (including products in packaging transported in hand luggage and luggage for personal use), egg products, meat and edible offal of poultry, poultry meat products, incubation egg of poultry, incubation egg (except poultry egg), live bird (except poultry), fee

HS codes
  • 01 · Animals; live
    • 0105 Live poultry, 'fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls'
  • 02 · Meat and edible meat offal
    • 0207 Meat and edible offal of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls, fresh, chilled or frozen
    • 0208 Meat and edible offal of rabbits, hares, pigeons and other animals, fresh, chilled or frozen (excl. of bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, horses, asses…
    • 0209 Pig fat, free of lean meat, and poultry fat, 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
  • 04 · Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
    • 0407 Birds' eggs, in shell, fresh, preserved or cooked
    • 0408 Birds' eggs, not in shell, and egg yolks, fresh, dried, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, moulded, frozen or otherwise preserved, whether or not…
    • 0410 Insects, turtles' eggs, birds' nests and other edible products of animal origin, n.e.s.
All 44 codes
  • 05 · Animal originated products; not elsewhere specified or included
    • 0504 Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish), whole and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked.
    • 0505 Skins and other parts of birds, with their feathers or down, feathers and parts of feathers, whether or not with trimmed edges, and down, not further worked…
    • 0511 Animal products n.e.s. dead animals of all types, unfit for human consumption
  • 15 · Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
    • 1506 Other animal fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified.
    • 1510 Other oils and their fractions, obtained solely from olives, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified, incl. blends of these oils or fractions with…
    • 1516 Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinised, whether or…
    • 1518 Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated, sulphurised, blown, polymerised by heat in vacuum or in inert…
  • 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)
    • 1603 Extracts and juices of meat, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates.
  • 19 · Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products
    • 1902 Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed with meat or other substances or otherwise prepared, such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli…
    • 1904 Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products, e.g. corn flakes; cereals (other than maize 'corn') in grain form or in the…
  • 21 · Miscellaneous edible preparations
    • 2102 Yeasts, active or inactive; other dead single-cell micro-organisms, prepared baking powders (excl. single-cell micro-organisms packaged as medicaments)
    • 2104 Soups and broths and preparations therefor; food preparations consisting of finely homogenised mixtures of two or more basic ingredients such as meat, fish…
    • 2106 Food preparations, n.e.s.
  • 23 · Food industries, residues and wastes thereof; prepared animal fodder
    • 2309 Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding
  • 29 · Organic chemicals
    • 2936 Provitamins and vitamins, natural or reproduced by synthesis, incl. natural concentrates, derivatives thereof used primarily as vitamins, and intermixtures of…
  • 35 · Albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues; enzymes
    • 3504 Peptones and their derivatives; other protein substances and their derivatives, not elsewhere specified or included; hide powder, whether or not chromed.
    • 3507 Enzymes; prepared enzymes, n.e.s.
  • 38 · Chemical products n.e.c.
    • 3808 Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up for retail…
    • 3824 Prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores; chemical products and preparations for the chemical or allied industries, incl. mixtures of natural products…
  • 39 · Plastics and articles thereof
    • 3923 Articles for the conveyance or packaging of goods, of plastics; stoppers, lids, caps and other closures, of plastics
    • 3926 Articles of plastics and articles of other materials of heading 3901 to 3914, n.e.s.
  • 42 · Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silk-worm gut)
    • 4206 Articles of gut (other than silk-worm gut), of goldbeater's skin, of bladders or of tendons.
  • 44 · Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal
    • 4415 Packing cases, boxes, crates, drums and similar packings, of wood; cable-drums of wood; pallets, box pallets and other load boards, of wood; pallet collars of…
    • 4416 Casks, barrels, vats, tubs and other coopers' products and parts thereof, of wood, including staves.
    • 4421 Other articles of wood, n.e.s.
  • 70 · Glass and glassware
    • 7020 Other articles of glass.
  • 73 · Iron or steel articles
    • 7309 Reservoirs, tanks, vats and similar containers for any material (other than compressed or liquefied gas), of iron or steel, of a capacity exceeding 300 l…
    • 7310 Tanks, casks, drums, cans, boxes and similar containers, of iron or steel, for any material 'other than compressed or liquefied gas', of a capacity of <= 300…
    • 7326 Articles of iron or steel, n.e.s. (excl. cast articles)
  • 76 · Aluminium and articles thereof
    • 7616 Articles of aluminium, n.e.s.
  • 84 · Machinery and mechanical appliances, boilers, nuclear reactors; parts thereof
    • 8436 Agricultural, horticultural, forestry, poultry-keeping or bee-keeping machinery, incl. germination plant fitted with mechanical or thermal equipment; poultry…
  • 86 · Railway, tramway locomotives, rolling-stock and parts thereof; railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings and parts thereof; mechanical (including electro-mechanical) traffic signalling equipment of all kinds
    • 8606 Railway or tramway goods vans and wagons (excl. self-propelled and luggage vans and post office coaches)
    • 8609 Containers (including containers for the transport of fluids) specially designed and equipped for carriage by one or more modes of transport.
  • 87 · Vehicles; other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
    • 8716 Trailers and semi-trailers; other vehicles, not mechanically propelled (excl. railway and tramway vehicles); parts thereof, n.e.s.
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/353
Keywords
Animal health, Newcastle Disease, Animal diseases

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
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/353; it forwards comments to Russia.

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What the notification says

This letter introduces temporary restrictions on the imports of live poultry and poultry products to the territory of the Russian Federation, as well as on the transit of live poultry through the territory of the Russian Federation from Malaysia due to the outbreak of Newcastle disease in the country indicated.

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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