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SOR/2025-143 is a companion instrument to the same-day SOR/2025-142 (see 2025-06-13-canada-sema-russia-sor-2025-142-shadow-fleet-sanctions), both made under the Special Economic Measures Act as amendments to the 2014 Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations (SOR/2014-58). Where SOR/2025-142 targets the sanctions-evasion layer (intermediaries, shadow fleet vessels), SOR/2025-143 does two distinct things: it designates Russia's civilian-quantum research and commercialisation apparatus (dual-use quantum computing and quantum communications being a recognised sensitive-technology category — Canada's designations single out lead institutions and commercial spin-offs rather than the state generally), and it widens Canada's goods-trade sanctions perimeter — a new coal import ban, a new jet fuel/additives export ban, and expansion of the existing metals import ban (Schedule 11) — closing off additional Russian export-revenue channels and Western supply channels into Russia's aviation sector.
Severity is set at 4 (quant basis): beyond the 14-entity quantum-sector designation, this round adds outright trade prohibitions (import ban on an entire commodity class, coal; export ban on jet fuel/additives) rather than just asset-freeze designations, which is a broader instrument than the sibling SOR/2025-142 (severity 3, designations/vessels only).
additives) at a moment when Russia's shadow-fleet logistics already strain fuel-supply chains.
specifically (research institute + spin-off firm QRate + state investor Rusnano), continuing the trans-Atlantic pattern of treating quantum as a sanctions-relevant dual-use category (cf. US BIS's 2022 and 2024 quantum export-control actions already on the register).
Canada, paralleling earlier EU/UK/US coal embargoes.
independently itemized in this filing (Gazette RIAS summarizes by schedule reference) — worth a follow-up pull if material-level detail is needed for the minerals atlas.