Canada: SOR/2022-49 adds 19 individuals and 25 Belarusian entities (potash, energy, finance, tobacco, defence) to sanctions Schedule (Mar 2022)

Mechanism

The amendments restructure Schedule 1 of the Special Economic Measures (Belarus) Regulations, adding a new Part 1.1 for individuals and expanding Part 2 for entities: 19 individuals and 25 entities in total. They also broaden the definitions of associates, family members and controlled entities, and amend paragraphs 3.1(b), 3.2(b) and 3.3(a) on Belarusbank and Belarus-controlled entities. The regulatory impact statement states the aims as imposing costs on Belarus for supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine, affirming non-recognition of the LNR/DNR, and aligning with allies.

Sectors named in the impact statement, with the entities it lists:

• Potash: Belaruskali OAO, Belarusian Potash Company
• Tobacco: Grodno Tobacco Factory 'Neman', Inter Tobacco
• Energy: Naftan Oil Refinery, Belneftkhim
• Finance: Absolutbank, Belinvestbank, Belbizneslizing, Bank Dabrabyt
• Defence: State Authority for Military Industry (SAMI), 558 Aircraft Repair Plant

Downstream implications

• Belaruskali and the Belarusian Potash Company are named potash exporters, so

Canada, itself a major potash producer, formally bars Canadian-nexus dealings with them.

• The impact statement describes the effect on Canadian businesses as limited.

Open questions

• The Gazette text gives no trade-value figure for the listed entities' exports

to Canada.