Russia may freeze the export of RD-180 rocket engines, as well as components for high-tech industries to the United States in retaliation for unfriendly policies, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma’s economic policy and industry committee Vladimir Gutenev has suggested. “Our further steps will depend on how our opponents go about the business…
Customs duties on the export of hides will be introduced in Azerbaijan for 5 years, according to the decision of the country’s Cabinet of Ministers published in the Azerbaijani official press. The changes, in particular, will affect the export of cattle hides, raw hides of sheep and lambs, including fresh, salted or dried hides. In…
Russian retailers are interested in selling Google’s Pixel, the first smartphone fully designed by the U.S. company, spokespeople for several companies reported. “Google’s previous models Nexus sold at Svyaznoy enjoyed some success among the fans of the most technically advanced smartphones”, Sergei Tikhonov, a spokesman for multi-channel retailer Svyaznoy, said adding that it was still…
Russia’s Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance may ban imports of fish and chilled meat from New Zealand, Sergey Dankvert, head of the watchdog, said. “We are considering restrictive measures regarding products from New Zealand. It concerns fish and chilled meat”, he said. The head of the regulator said that in the course of…
Russia has banned pork imports from Moldova starting with October 6, due to an outbreak of ASF. This was reported by the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor). (TASS/Business World Magazine)
Russia’s cross-border sales of goods and services, including digital goods, content, games and social networks, will grow by 32% in 2016 to $2 billion, payment platform PayPal and research agency Data Insight said in a study. The internal e-commerce market will exceed $20 billion in 2016. “The market of retail Internet exports of goods and…
Russian metals holding Metalloinvest has signed a contract to export over 600,000 tons of rail and shaped billets to Kazakhstan’s Aktobe Rail and Section Works in 2017-2020 from its unit Ural Steel, Metalloinvest said in a statement. In February Metalloinvest signed a 3-year contract to export about 600,000 tons of rail and shaped billets by…