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Draft protocol, product liberalisation list for export to Russia synchronised

Belgrade, 18 September 2008

The Serbian Ministry of Economy and Regional Development stated that a draft protocol and liberalisation list for export to Russia are synchronized at a session of the expert group for promotion of trade and economic development and mechanisms of trade between Serbia and Russia, held this week in Moscow, and both states will implement procedures necessary for signing of the agreed protocol within a month.

The statement says that according to Foreign Trade Agreement protocols, valid from August 28, 2000, customs for most products coming from these two countries are abolished, and the list will be expanded to: all drugs, classical products, confectionery products, apple juice, malt beer, fresh grape wines, all soaps, wool cloth, refrigerators, freezers and all refrigerating devices, washing and drying machines, wooden upholstered seats, wooden office furniture, sleeping bags, sheets and similar goods.

At this session the liberalisation list of import goods from Russia to Serbia was also synchronised and it refers to mineral and chemical pesticides, air and vacuum pumps, ball bearings with more then 30 millimetre diameter, housings for beds, electro motors and electric generators, transformers and accumulators and tractors of more than 90 kW power.

At the session, attended by State Secretary for International Economic Relations of the Ministry of Economy and Regional Development Vesna Arsic and Deputy Director of Department for International Economic Relations of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development A.B. Slizkov, it is estimated that the agreement on future interchange of goods without customs is achieved according to majority of positions, and it is agreed that the liberalisation of passenger vehicles, carpets and televisions should be an issue of the next round of negotiations, concludes the statement.