A response to recent US sanctions against major Russian businessmen and officials may be a restriction on the purchase of American goods for Russian companies and users. On this, as reported by the Russian service of the BBC, said Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
In the course of the government’s annual report to the State Duma, Medvedev answered the question about actions that Russia could take in relation to the United States:
There are a lot of products from the USA in our market. This is not only securities, but also a number of other products that are produced by American business.
According to him, Russia also does not exclude the possibility of applying for protection to trade institutions in order to protect themselves from attempts to “use non-competitive ways to fight for economic markets.”
Medvedev is known as a connoisseur of Apple products, as well as clothing and footwear of American companies. He has been seen repeatedly from the iPhone and iPad, and he also regularly wears Nike sports sneakers.
What kind of goods will be subject to such "retaliatory sanctions" has not yet been decided.
The main article of American exports to Russia accounts for Boeing Corporation. These are aircraft engines, aircraft and components for them. The United States also supplies engineering products, equipment for the oil industry and various gadgets to Russia.
Earlier, the Ministry of Finance decided to accelerate the reduction of the limit on duty-free purchases of Russians in foreign online stores. If the law is passed, the restriction of such purchases to $ 500 will be introduced from July 1, 2018, and not from January 1, 2019, as previously assumed.
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