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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 as of 24 March 2026 No. FS-ARe-7/7098-3

Russia notified this emergency SPS measure on 27 March 2026. Emergency measures can apply immediately.

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At a glance

Products

Animals susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease and products derived thereof, including products in packaging transported in hand luggage and luggage for personal use

HS codes
  • 01 · Animals; live
    • 0102 Live bovine animals
    • 0103 Live swine
    • 010613 Live camels and other camelids [Camelidae]
All 20 codes
  • 02 · Meat and edible meat offal
    • 0201 Meat of bovine animals, fresh or chilled
    • 0202 Meat of bovine animals, frozen
    • 0203 Meat of swine, fresh, chilled or frozen
    • 0204 Meat of sheep or goats, fresh, chilled or frozen
    • 0205 Meat of horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen.
    • 0206 Edible offal of bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen
    • 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
    • 04
  • 05 · Animal originated products; not elsewhere specified or included
    • 051110 Bovine semen
    • 051199 Products of animal origin, n.e.s., dead animals, unfit for human consumption (excl. fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates)
  • 23 · Food industries, residues and wastes thereof; prepared animal fodder
    • 2309 Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding
  • 43 · Furskins and artificial fur; manufactures thereof
    • 430180 Raw furskins, whole, with or without heads, tails or paws (excl. those of mink, lamb - Astrachan, Caracul, Persian, Broadtail and similar, and Indian…
    • 430190 Heads, tails, paws and other pieces or cuttings of furskins suitable for use in furriery
    • 430390 Articles of furskin (excl. articles of apparel, clothing accessories and goods of chapter 95, e.g. toys, games and sports equipment)
  • 84 · Machinery and mechanical appliances, boilers, nuclear reactors; parts thereof
    • 843680 Agricultural, horticultural, forestry or bee-keeping machinery, n.e.s.
  • 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/355
Keywords
Animal health, Foot and mouth disease, Animal diseases, Pest- or Disease- free Regions / Regionalization

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/355; it forwards comments to Russia.

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What the notification says

This letter introduces temporary restrictions on the imports of certain animals susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease and products derived thereof, as well as on the transit of animals susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease from Greece to the territory of the Russian Federation due to the deterioration of foot-and-mouth disease epizootic situation 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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