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Resolution No. 1535 amends Russia's standing export-duty schedule (originally set by Resolution No. 2068 of 27 November 2021) to add a 10%-of-customs-value duty on oil/oilseed flax (HS heading covering flax seeds for oil extraction) exported outside the EAEU customs territory. The rate had stood at 0% since the prior duty structure was set; this is a new, not-escalated, duty layer with a fixed sunset (31 August 2026) rather than an open-ended measure. Russia's Oil and Fat Union had lobbied for a much higher rate (30%, matching the standing rapeseed duty) earlier in 2025; the government settled on 10%.
The move sits inside a well-established Russian policy pattern — temporary, sunset-dated export duties on raw agricultural feedstocks (sunflower, rapeseed, now flax) intended to keep raw material onshore for domestic crushing/processing capacity rather than exporting it unprocessed, while avoiding the WTO/EAEU friction of an outright ban.
A moderate, disclosed ad-valorem rate (10%, quant basis) on a mid-tier, non-staple oilseed with a fixed one-time introduction rather than an escalating series. This is below Russia's grain-export-quota and sulphur-export-ban actions in the same food-security-export-controls theme (broader staple/strategic-input coverage, severity 3) but above a negligible/symbolic duty, consistent with flax's smaller share of Russian oilseed export value relative to sunflower or rapeseed.
position versus unprocessed exporters, reinforcing the stated domestic-processing-capacity goal.
marginal cost increase on Russian-sourced oil flax seed; these markets have some substitution capacity via Kazakhstan and Canadian flax supply.
across agricultural raw materials (grain, fertiliser, sulphur, now flax) — see food-security-export-controls theme for the full cluster.
Oil and Fat Union's originally requested 30% before the 31 August 2026 sunset.
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