UK bans imports of Russian wood, silver and other 'revenue generating goods' (announced 21 Apr 2022; SI 2022/689, Sch. 3D)
Sanction↓ Restrictive~🇬🇧 GB · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) / Department for International Trade — Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019✎ 2026-09-23
announced 21 Apr 2022
effective 23 Jun 2022
Status
effective 23 Jun 2022 · stage not filed
Sourcing
🟢 primary-OJ 2 primary
🇬🇧 GB issued this sanction measure targeting 1 jurisdiction, touching forestry-wood-products, precious-metals, fertilisers and 1 more sectors. It reads as restrictive.
RBI 2quant 2 · $5B📌 stable
On 21 April 2022 the UK announced import bans on Russian silver, wood products and other high-value goods (incl. caviar), alongside a 35-point tariff increase on selected Russian and Belarusian goods. The ban was legislated by the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 10) Regulations 2022 (SI 2022/689, made 20 June, in force 23 June 2022), which inserted a new Schedule 3D ("revenue generating goods") and prohibitions 46T-46W: import of Schedule 3D goods originating in or consigned from Russia, their acquisition, supply/delivery into the UK and related technical assistance are prohibited, subject to Part 7 exceptions and licences. Schedule 3D covers all of HS chapter 44 (wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal), HS 7106 silver, plus e.g. caviar, cement, potassium chloride and NPK fertilisers, pulp and kraft paper, glass, and aluminium plate.
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Mechanism
The measure is an import prohibition under the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, Part 5 (trade). New prohibitions (regs 46T-46W as inserted by SI 2022/689) bar: (1) import of Schedule 3D goods that originate in or are consigned from Russia; (2) direct or indirect acquisition of such goods originating in or located in Russia with the intention of bringing them into the UK; (3) supply or delivery of them from Russia into the UK; (4) technical assistance for any of these. Breach is an offence with a no-reasonable-cause-to-suspect defence. Part 7 exceptions and licences apply.
Dating note
GTA logs the intervention as implemented on 2022-04-21, the date of the ministerial announcement. The legal prohibition did not bind until SI 2022/689 came into force on 23 June 2022; announced_date carries the former and effective_date the latter.
Downstream implications
- Covers all of HS chapter 44 (wood and articles of wood) plus wood pulp
(HS 4705) and kraft paper (HS 4804) from Russia.
- Silver (HS 7106) in unwrought/semi-manufactured/powder form is barred,
a narrow precious-metals chokepoint rather than a bulk-commodity one.
- Same Schedule 3D also picks up potash/NPK fertilisers and aluminium plate,
so the instrument overlaps with fertiliser and aluminium supply chains.
Open questions
- Government-stated trade value affected is not confirmed from a primary
text here; no magnitude: block filed.