Russian media: Parallel imports through Turkey have been stopped

The Russian business newspaper Kommersant published a remarkable story about trade between Turkey and Russia.

According to the news that the newspaper relied on the managers of Russian logistics companies, Turkey stopped the transit of sanctioned goods from its own territory to Russia.

Kommersant wrote that the managers of said logistics companies reported that since the first half of this week, the Turkish customs authorities began to prevent the shipment of products containing the customs codes of goods on the European Union sanctions list to Russia. . and Belarus.

The executives said Turkish customs officials referred to a government order to stop the transit, but there were no official government announcements about any changes to Turkey’s transit policy for goods bound for Russia or Belarus.

Kommersant stated that only products made in Turkey are allowed to be sent to Russia.

US officials had warned Turkish authorities not to help Russia circumvent sanctions. There was a lot of news in the Western press that Russia carried out parallel imports of sanctioned products through Turkey.