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Text of agreement with Eurasian Economic Union harmonised

Belgrade/Moscow, 12 March 2019

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic and Minister of Trade of the Eurasian Economic Commission Veronika Nikishina harmonised today in Moscow the final text of the Free Trade Agreement between Serbia and the Eurasian Economic Union.

In today's round of talks between Ljajic and Nikishina all the controversial issues in the negotiations that have been going on since 2016 were resolved.

In a statement to Tanjug, Ljajic said that a modern text of the Free Trade Agreement was agreed in Moscow, which is in line with the rules of the World Trade Organization and the principles of modern trade practice.

In addition to Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, with which we have already had bilateral agreements, a new unified agreement will apply to Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, he specified.

According to him, we did not get everything we wanted, but we will have more goods in duty-free regime than to date.

In this way, as he explained, our producers will be able to export unlimited quantities of all kinds of fruit brandy, as well as all kinds of sheep and goat cheese.

In addition, we received a 2,000-ton quota for the export of cigarettes, as well as a quota for 87,500 litres of “vinjak” brandy and 400 tons of semi-hard and hard cow cheese, Ljajic said, adding that other types of cow cheese are already in duty-free regime.