Japan 16th Russia sanctions round: export ban to 21 Russian entities and additional industrial-capacity items

Mechanism

Part of Japan's recurring FEFTA sanctions rounds aligned with G7 partners. This round pairs an entity-based export ban (21 entities listed by MOFA notice) with a goods-based ban on items judged to enhance Russian industrial capacity. The asset-freeze component (39 individuals, 73 entities, one bank, 9 Ukrainian-region individuals) is outside the export-control classification but part of the same Cabinet decision.

Downstream implications

• Extends the Japan-to-Russia export perimeter beyond the January 2023

15th round; later rounds in this register (July 2023, April 2024) widen the goods list further.

• The specific HS scope of the industrial-capacity items was not

retrievable from the MOFA page from this host; the figures above are those stated in the press release as summarised by search. GTA's sector coding (cereals, vegetables, fruits) appears to reflect its own classification, not the items named by MOFA.