November 10, 2011 after 18 years of negotiations, Russia has joined the World Trade Organization and will participate at the upcoming summit of the Organization to be held in mid-December. This will involve greater trade openness on the part of the country: lower import duties (ceiling which drops from 10 to 7.8%) and greater competitiveness in exports, with a major push

Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan have approved the entry into the customs of Kyrgyzstan. The extension was announced by the EAC Secretary General Tair Mansurov during the EurAsEC Interstate Council meeting.
The question on the accession of Kyrgyzstan was on the agenda for some time. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in St. Petersburg, where he

From 21 October 2011 on the territory of the Russian Federation the mandatory certification of seeds used in agriculture has been abolished. However, the abolition of mandatory certification of the seed does not imply the loss of control in the field. The surveillance and prevention activities from now on will be carried out in accordance with the federal law on Technical regulation. Therefore, companies operating in the field will attest the quality of their products through

Following numerous reports by the Federal Customs Service, who complained of persistent breach by the certification bodies of the Russian Government Resolution No. 766, which establishes procedures for issuing and recording of the declaration of conformity GOST R, the Federal Agency for technical regulation and metrology, issued a statement to the leaders of certification bodies. The statement reads that the Federal Customs Service reports that at the time of customs clearance of