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05 Jun 2025 Bakytzhan Sagintaev held negotiations with Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission's Board On June 5, Bakytzhan Sagintaev, Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission's Board, held a working meeting at the EEC's headquarters with Zhang Hanhui, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Russian Federation. During the meeting they discussed the prospects of interaction between the Eurasian Economic Union countries and China within the framework of the Agreement on Trade and Economic Cooperation. "The People's Republic of China is one of the key foreign economic partners for the Eurasian Economic Union countries. Our relations are based on the principles of mutual respect, openness and strategic cooperation," emphasized the Head of the EEC Board. Since the Agreement on Trade and Economic Cooperation entered into force in 2019, trade turnover between the EAEU and China has more than doubled to $280 billion by 2024. At the end of the meeting, the parties reaffirmed their commitment to deepening further cooperation in a number of priority areas of the economy. Chairman of the EEC Board invited representatives of government authorities and businesses of China to participate in the Eurasian Economic Forum on June 26-27, 2025 in Minsk. In turn, Zhang Hanhui invited Bakytzhan Sagintaev to Beijing to attend the World War II Victory Parade. The Agreement on trade and economic cooperation between the Eurasian Economic Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the People's Republic of China, of the other part, was signed in Astana in 2018.
04 Jun 2025 Arzybek Kozhoshev: "Efficient interaction between the EAEU and ASEAN is a driver of logistics development in Eurasia" The experience of developing integration in the field of transport in the EAEU and ASEAN and their prospects were discussed by the participants of the EEC-ASEAN meeting "Exchange of Experience in the Field of Cross-Border Land Transportation and Its Respective Regulation". The event was held as a teleconference between the EEC Headquarters in Moscow and the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia. Arzybek Kozhoshev, the EEC Minister in charge of Energy and Infrastructure, opened the seminar and delivered a welcoming address. "The EAEU and ASEAN countries have a unique geographical and geo-economic position, high transit and industrial potential. Taking into account the actively developing markets of Southeast Asia and changing transportation and logistics supplies, there is now an important task of coordinating efforts to create logistics hubs and develop transport corridors, as well as multimodal transport," Arzybek Kozhoshev noted. The seminar participants presented information on the institutional framework of transport regulation in their integration associations, modern trends in integration processes, and discussed the results and future directions of digitalization in transport, infrastructure and logistics development. Rustan Jenalinov, Director of the EEC Transport and Infrastructure Department, made a presentation on developing the EAEU integration in the field of transport and shared the results achieved. Representatives of the United Transport and Logistics Company — Eurasian Railway Alliance, the International Road Transport Union, the ASEAN Secretariat and ASEAN transport ministries also spoke at the event.
04 Jun 2025 Ruslan Davydov spoke to businesses about key aspects of EAEU customs regulation Ruslan Davydov, Minister in charge of Customs Cooperation of the Eurasian Economic Commission, held a working meeting with representatives of member companies of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia and the Pacific-Eurasian Business Alliance. He spoke about the prospects for implementing customs regulation of cross-border Internet trade, the introduction of navigation seals to track shipments across the Eurasian Economic Union, as well as the work to expand simplifications for authorized economic operators. The meeting participants considered proposals to improve the EAEU legislation in the field of customs regulation. According to the EEC Minister, this discussion is important for creating a favorable business environment and increasing the competitiveness of enterprises from the Union countries. Ruslan Davydov called for more active participation in the meetings of the working bodies functioning within the Commission's Customs Cooperation Unit, and invited the attendees to take part in the Customs Cooperation Unit's events at the Eurasian Economic Forum, which will be held on June 26-27 in Minsk.
03 Jun 2025 Dinara Mukaeva appointed Deputy Director of EEC Antitrust Regulation Department Dinara Mukaeva was born in 1987 in Almaty Region, Kazakhstan. She graduated from Abay Kazakh National Pedagogical University with a degree in International Law. In 2008-2020, she held various positions in antitrust authorities of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In 2020-2022, she headed the Anti-Cartel Office of the Agency for Protection and Development of Competition of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In 2022-2025, she headed the territorial Department of the Agency for Protection and Development of Competition of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the Abay Region. She is an awardee of the badge of the Republic of Kazakhstan "Excellence in Antimonopoly Service". Since May 28, 2025 she was appointed Deputy Director of Antitrust Regulation Department of the Eurasian Economic Commission.
Amendments to lists of standards to technical regulation on food products enacted 02 Jun 2025 Amendments to lists of standards to technical regulation on food products enacted On June 2, amendments to the lists of standards to the Eurasian Economic Union's technical regulation on food products adopted by the Eurasian Economic Commission's Board in December 2024 came into effect. According to the amendments, the list of voluntary application standards is supplemented with 17 interstate standards, while the list of standards for methods is expanded with one interstate standard. Ten interstate standards are updated. 14 national standards of the EAEU countries are excluded, as the corresponding interstate standards have been developed based on them. The amendments were prepared by the Commission based on proposals of the authorized standardization bodies of the Union countries, taking into account paragraph 36, subparagraph b of the Procedure for Developing and Adopting Lists of International and Regional (Interstate) Standards approved by the EEC Council.
EAEU temporarily zeroed import customs duties on tropical fruit puree for juice production 02 Jun 2025 EAEU temporarily zeroed import customs duties on tropical fruit puree for juice production The Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission set temporary zero rates of import customs duties on mashed bananas, mangoes, kiwis, nectarines, as well as peaches, apricots and pears. "Concentrated puree from these fruits is used in making juice products, including for children's nutrition. But many of them do not grow on the territory of the Eurasian Economic Union or do not grow in sufficient quantities for industrial processing. Therefore, businesses buy imported raw materials, the prices for which have significantly increased in recent years," Vahagn Ghazaryan, Director of the EEC Tariff and Non-tariff Customs Regulation Department, explained the necessity of the measure. At the same time, he stressed that the validity period of the measure is calculated taking into account investment programs for the development of domestic horticulture in the EAEU States and will be from one to three years for different types of purees. The Decision shall come into effect after 10 calendar days have elapsed from the date of its official publication.
EEC Council approved increased rate of import customs duty on certain types of light industry goods until late 2026 02 Jun 2025 EEC Council approved increased rate of import customs duty on certain types of light industry goods until late 2026 EEC Council approved increased rate of import customs duty on certain types of light industry goods until late 2026 The Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission decided to increase the rate of import customs duty on "other printed bed linen from cotton yarn" (code 6302 21 000 0 CN FEA of EAEU) to 12%, but not less than 0.44 Euros per 1 kg until December 31, 2026 inclusive. "The adopted measure of customs tariff regulation will additionally support domestic enterprises taking into account that yarn for bed linen production is also mainly coming to us from third countries," noted Vahagn Ghazaryan, Director of the EEC Tariff and Non-Tariff Customs Regulation Departmen Along with that, he emphasized that the manufacturers of the EAEU countries make products that are not inferior in their characteristics to imported bed linen and offer a wide range of products. The Decision shall come into effect after 10 calendar days have elapsed from the date of its official publication.
02 Jun 2025 Vitaly Vovk: "Competitiveness of machine tool products within the EAEU requires support from the Member States" Vitaly Vovk and Laura Sadykova, Deputy Directors of the Eurasian Economic Commission's Industrial Policy Department, took part in the international specialized exhibition of equipment, devices and tools for the metalworking industry "Metal Processing 2025". The exhibition events and the international trade and industrial congress "Investments. Development. Cooperation" held as part of them noted the need to develop the production of critical components using domestic capacities. EEC representatives met with a number of Belarusian and Russian manufacturers of machine tool products. "Now it is especially important to specialize machine-tool enterprises of the Eurasian Economic Union countries: firstly, to establish production of critical components for the EAEU countries, and secondly, not to create internal competition," Vitaly Vovk stressed during the negotiations. He also noted that in order to increase the competitiveness of Eurasian machine tools and components at the current stage, substantial support of the Union's countries is needed in terms of securing orders and providing guarantees for the sale of finished products. The Unit representatives told the exhibition participants about the mechanism for financing industrial cooperation, urging them to involve enterprises of the Member States in cooperation chains.
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