Canada sanctions 163 persons and adds five dual-use export categories against Russia (SOR/2024-32)

Mechanism

SOR/2024-32 is one round in the same recurring series of Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations amendments as the later 2025-02-21 (SOR/2025-33), 2025-06-13 (SOR/2025-142/143) and 2025-11-12 (SOR/2025-228) filings already in this register — Canada has used this instrument since 2014 to build out its Russia sanctions list, timed here to the two-year anniversary of the full-scale invasion. It was registered and came into force on 2024-02-21; Global Trade Alert logged the corresponding state act the same day, so announced_date and effective_date are both set to the registration date.

Two mechanisms in one regulation, per the Gazette regulatory impact statement:

1. Designations (Schedule 1) — 10 individuals (including figures tied to sanctions-evasion networks) and 153 entities, predominantly Russian organizations involved in military-industrial production, logistics, insurance and oil-sector support, added to the dealing/asset-freeze list. 2. Export goods list (Schedule 7) — five new HS-coded categories banned for export to Russia or Russian persons: explosives and pyrotechnic products (HS 36); data-processing units and components (HS 8471.50, 8471.80); ball and roller bearings (HS 8482.10/20/30/50); semiconductor manufacturing equipment (HS 8486.10/20/40); and optical/navigational instruments (HS 9013, 9014, 9027, 9030 subheadings) — dual-use precision components with military-industrial application.

Severity basis

Severity is set at 3 (quant basis), anchored on the Gazette's own counts: 163 persons added to Schedule 1 in a single amending regulation, plus five new HS-coded export-ban categories. That is a larger single listing round than the February 2025 Canadian round already in this register (32 individuals, 44 entities), but it is still one incremental amendment to an already-large, multi-year cumulative Canadian Russia sanctions list rather than a first-of-kind or economy-wide measure — consistent with the severity-3 rating given to the sibling filings in this series. The Gazette also documents the cumulative effect of the regime on the specific export goods list: Canadian exports of the now-restricted HS categories to Russia fell from CAD 9.2 million (2021) to CAD 60,000 (2023), over 80% down from pre-invasion levels — cited here as context for the regime's trajectory, not as an input to this action's own severity score.

Downstream implications

• Extends the same Canadian Schedule-1 designation mechanism used in the

later 2025 rounds already filed in this register, widening the pool of entities Canadian persons and financial institutions must screen against.

• The Schedule 7 additions bring Canada's export-ban goods list closer to

the EU/US dual-use control lists on semiconductor manufacturing equipment and precision optical/navigation components — narrowing residual third-country sourcing options for Russian military-industrial users.

Open questions

• Whether any of the 153 newly-designated entities recur as targets in the

2025 Canadian rounds already filed (would indicate re-designation after evasion, not new targets).