PRESIDENTIAL DECREE OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

of April 22, 2022 No. 152

About import of tobacco raw materials and tobacco products

For the purpose of preserving state regulation of import of tobacco raw materials and tobacco products, creation of conditions for protection of public health, protection of economic interests of the state:

1. Determine that import to the Republic of Belarus of tobacco raw materials and tobacco products is performed without quantitative restrictions.

2. Reserve for the state exclusive right on implementation of import of tobacco raw materials and the tobacco products classified by codes 2401, of 2402, 2403 and 2404 11 000 single Commodity nomenclatures of foreign economic activity of the Eurasian Economic Union.

The provision of part one of this Item does not extend to import to the Republic of Belarus:

tobacco raw materials and tobacco products organizers and participants of the international exhibitions and fairs as samples and exhibits;

the tobacco products intended for realization in duty-free shops, and also realized in such shops;

cigarettes the organizations - tobacco product manufacturers as the samples intended for quality control and safety, for measurements according to international standards, carrying out interlaboratory, comparative researches, measurements of the normalized parameters according to requirements of technical regulations of the Customs union, Eurasian Economic Union, calibration of the equipment, comparative tests, studying of design in number of no more than 10 thousand pieces of cigarettes in calendar god*.

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* For the purposes of this Decree calendar year is understood as the period from January 1 to December 31.

3. Realization of exclusive right of the state on implementation of import of tobacco raw materials is made by open joint stock company "The Grodno tobacco factory "Neman" and Tabak-invest limited liability company, tobacco products - the republican production and trade unitary enterprise "Belarustorg" of Administration of the President of the Republic of Belarus.

4. To Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus in three-months time to take measures for implementation of this Decree.

5. Provisions of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus of October 18, 2007 No. 4 "About state regulation of import of tobacco raw materials and tobacco products and modification and amendments in the Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus of December 17, 2002 No. 28" on the questions settled by this Decree stop the action before recognition their invalid.

6. This Decree becomes effective after its official publication.

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