{"id":429501,"date":"2025-06-12T13:03:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T11:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/06\/12\/approvati-dazi-ue-prodotti-agricoli-russi\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T13:50:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T11:50:56","slug":"eu-tariffs-on-russian-fertilizers-and-agricultural-products-final-green-light-from-the-member-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/06\/12\/eu-tariffs-on-russian-fertilizers-and-agricultural-products-final-green-light-from-the-member-states\/","title":{"rendered":"EU tariffs on Russian fertilizers and agricultural products: final green light from the member States"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – As of\u00a0July 1, 2025,<\/strong> all agricultural products from Russia will be subject to customs duties in the European Union. The EU Council decided this today (June 12), definitively\u00a0approving<\/a>\u00a0the regulation extending the tariffs to previously exempt goods, including certain nitrogen fertilizers from Moscow and Minsk.<\/p>\n

The measure, proposed by the Commission in January and supported<\/a> politically by the European Parliament last May, is part of the EU’s strategy to weaken\u00a0Russia’s ability to finance its war against Ukraine<\/strong>. According to Commission figures, in 2023, over\u00a025 percent of fertilizer imports into the EU came from the Russian Federation, with a total volume of 3.6 million tons and a value of \u20ac1.28 billion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“Security also passes through the economy,” said Micha\u0142 Baranowski<\/strong>, Polish Under-Secretary of State for Trade, emphasizing that the approval of the new tariffs is consistent with the motto of the Polish Council Presidency: “Security, Europe!” The\u00a0aim is\u00a0to reduce Russia’s revenues and diminish the Union’s dependence on critical supplies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Tariffs on certain fertilizers<\/strong> will be introduced\u00a0simply to protect European agriculture<\/strong>. A course of action that also reflects the lack of sanctions\u00a0on phosphate fertilizers for the sake of food security<\/a>.\u00a0The plan envisages a three-year transition<\/strong> to allow operators to adapt while maintaining supply stability and affordability for European producers. The Commission will closely monitor the measure’s impact on the internal market, reserving the right to intervene in the event of imbalances.<\/p>\n

The new tariffs will affect goods that accounted for about 15 percent of total agricultural imports from Russia in 2023, including sugar, flour, feedstock, and fermented products<\/strong>. At the same time, the EU executive aims to accelerate the diversification of sources and\u00a0strengthen\u00a0domestic production, including through targeted investments in sectors most exposed to foreign competition. The decision comes in a geopolitical context marked by the Union’s quest for greater strategic autonomy, especially in the agricultural and industrial sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brussels approves new tariffs on agricultural imports from Russia and Belarus. The aim is to reduce dependency and weaken the Kremlin’s war economy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7883,"featured_media":224840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25709],"tags":[25855,26279,26598,27072,26281,25803,26403],"class_list":["post-429501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agrifood-en","tag-agriculture-en","tag-trade-en","tag-dazi-en","tag-council-ue-en","tag-fertilizers-en","tag-russia-in-2","tag-war-russia-in-ukraine-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7883"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429501"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429519,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429501\/revisions\/429519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}