Customs explained its position on sending sanctions products to Russia

There are no ban on sending sanctions goods ordered by the population from foreign online stores for personal use. This was stated by the First Deputy Head of the Central Customs Administration of the FCS of Russia Konstantin Galnykin, Interfax reports.

“The official position is as follows: the movement for personal use is a decree [of the President of the Russian Federation] and the resolution of [government] on sanctions goods does not apply,” he explained.

The representative of the FCS added that the service will not miss commercial parties of goods falling under restrictions.

“The point is that we have intermediaries who accumulate these orders for personal use in the framework of one or more deliveries, and they do not take into account the amount of goods moved to certain periods of time, do not take into account weight characteristics, therefore, often Internet billing becomes commercial parties,” Galneykin said.

He emphasized that the operators who are sending parcels in the Russian Federation should work to determine whether we are talking about a commercial party or personal orders.

On October 14, Russian customs reported that the sale of sanctions goods via the Internet is prohibited. The representative of the service noted that the FCS thus refutes the information that had previously appeared in the media about the possibility of buying such goods through delivery services. Prior to this, the FCS explained how RBC transmitted that Russians could purchase foreign sanctions products through Internet intermediarys. Then the customs emphasized that it is only about orders for personal use.