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SOR/2022-075 was registered and came into force 5 April 2022 as an amendment to the Special Economic Measures (Belarus) Regulations (SOR/2020-214). It revises the existing aviation sanctions provision to prohibit "the provision of any and all insurance, reinsurance, and underwriting services" for aviation and aerospace products tied to Belarus or Belarusian persons — closing an insurance-market route that would otherwise let Belarus-linked aircraft keep flying on Western cover. A new section 3.6 separately prohibits exporting, selling, supplying or shipping any good or technology on the Belarus Restricted Goods and Technologies List (maintained by Global Affairs Canada, incorporated by reference) to Belarus or any person in Belarus — mirroring the Russia list established days earlier by SOR/2022-067. The same amendment added nine individuals (Belarusian oligarchs and three Deputy Ministers of Defence) to the Schedule 1 designated-persons list.
The regulatory impact analysis statement discloses that the products subject to the export sanctions are estimated at about CAD 1.1 million in 2021 exports, "about 6.9% of Canada's exports to Belarus" — below the three-year average, reflecting an already-thin bilateral trade channel being formally closed rather than a large active flow. Severity 3 reflects a real but narrow quantified exposure share, materially smaller than the parallel Russia restricted-goods list given Belarus's far smaller trade base with Canada.
separately) to Belarus, confirming Canada treats the two sanctions regimes as a single aligned export-control architecture rather than independent programs.
access), not a goods ban — relevant to aircraft lessors, insurers and reinsurers with Belarus-linked aviation exposure rather than to goods exporters directly.
from the parallel Russia list, or remains identical by cross-reference.