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Non-tariff regulation

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Non-tariff regulation

A set of measures to regulate foreign trade in goods carried out by introducing quantitative and other prohibitions and restrictions of an economic nature, which are established by international treaties of the member StatesThe EAEU, decisions of the EAEU Commission and regulatory legal acts of the EAEU member States issued in accordance with international treaties of the EAEU member states.

InTKEAESthere is no such definition, there is only a collective concept - 'prohibitions and restrictions', which combine both non-tariff regulation measures and other measures (technical, sanitary, veterinary, etc.).

Measures of state regulation of foreign trade activities are classified into:

  • Economic - customs and tariff measures (changes in the value of customs duty rates). Some measures of non-tariff regulation that affect the volume of foreign trade supplies indirectly, through market mechanisms, leading to higher prices for imported and exported goods. Among the non-tariff measures, these include: anti-dumping, countervailing, special duties;VATand excise taxes, currency regulation measures, etc;
  • Administrative - licensing and quotas of foreign trade activities, embargo, state monopoly on foreign trade, measures of technical regulation, veterinary, phytosanitary control, etc.

There are various classifications of non-tariff barriers developed by both international organizations and individual researchers.

Non-tariff regulationforeign trade in goods may be carried out only in the cases provided for in Articles 21-24, 26 and 27 of Federal Law No. 164-FZ of 08.12.2003 No. 164-FZ (ed. of 28.11.2018) 'On the fundamentals of state regulation of foreign trade activity'