As with all new members, the existing 153 members with specific concerns about Russian trade have negotiated 57 bilateral agreements on trade in goods and 30 on trade in services. The average bound tariff ceiling on goods will be 7.8 percent compared to 10.0 percent under current rules. The average bound tariff ceiling for agriculture will be lowered to 10.8 phần trăm từ 13.2 percent and the manufactured goods average ceiling will decline to 7.3 phần trăm từ 9.5 phần trăm. The final bound tariff rate on over one-third of the tariff lines will be implemented at accession with another one-fourth after three years. The longest implementation periods are eight years for poultry and seven years for motor cars, helicopters and civil aircraft.
Tariff rate quotas (TRQ) with higher over quota tariffs are established for meat and dairy products. Đối với thịt bò, the in-quota tariff is 15 phần trăm với mức thuế vượt hạn ngạch ở mức 55 phần trăm. Thịt lợn sẽ có mức thuế trong hạn ngạch thuận lợi bằng 0, nhưng mức thuế vượt hạn ngạch là 65 phần trăm. Trong tháng Má»™t 2020 TRQ đối với thịt lợn sẽ được thay thế bằng mức thuế cố định không vượt quá 25 phần trăm. Các sản phẩm gia cầm được lựa chọn sẽ có mức thuế trong hạn ngạch là 25 thuế suất phần trăm và thuế vượt hạn ngạch 80 phần trăm. Some whey products will have TRQ tariffs of 10 phần trăm và 15 phần trăm. Some TRQs will have allocations for specific WTO members. Meat will have requirements on declaration and/or entry at designated customs checkpoints. Country-specific customs procedures will not be allowed.
Agricultural subsidies are also addressed in the agreement. Total trade distorting agricultural support will not exceed U.S. $9.0 tỷ đồng 2012 and be gradually reduced to U.S. $4.4 tỷ bởi 2018. Through December 31, 2017, annual agricultural support going to specific products cannot exceed 30% of the total agriculture support that is not for specific products to avoid excessive concentration of support on individual products. All agricultural export subsidies will be bound at zero. At accession, the VAT exemption applied to certain domestic agricultural products will be eliminated.
Vệ sinh và phyto-vệ sinh (SPS) issues have been a major problem for the U.S. and other exporters of meat to Russia. All SPS measures will be developed and applied in accordance with the WTO Agreement. Nga sẽ tham gia và tích cực tham gia Codex Alimentarius, Tổ chức Thú y Thế giới (OIE) và Công ước Bảo vệ Thực vật Quốc tế và sẽ áp dụng các tiêu chuẩn quốc tế về các biện pháp SPS. Suspensions, cancellations, or refusals of import permits will be consistent with international standards and guidelines and the WTO SPS Agreement. Russia is obligated to negotiate veterinary export certificates with different requirements if an exporting country makes a substantiated request prior to January 1, 2013. Except in case of serious risks of animal or human health, the Russian government will not suspend imports from processing facilities based on on-site inspections before it gives the exporting country the opportunity to propose corrective measures.
Russia will allow 100% foreign-owned companies to engage in wholesale, retail and franchise businesses upon accession to the WTO. That will encourage more rapid modernization of food supply chains that has slowed import access in other WTO member countries.
As a major exporter of raw materials, Russian export duties are an important issue. Export duties would be bound for over 700 tariff lines, including mineral fuels and oils, raw hides and skins, wood, pulp and paper and base metals. This policy has an echo of the failure to anticipate Chinese actions to restrict exports.
The Russia government has a reputation for quickly changing rules on imports to protect domestic industries. It has agreed that quantitative restrictions on imports, such as quotas, bans, permits, prior authorization requirements, licensing requirements or other requirements or restrictions not justified under the WTO provisions will be eliminated and not re-introduced. They will apply the same rail transportation charges to imported products as similar products moving between domestic locations.
Russia plans to join the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA). It will become an observer to the GPA on accession and initiate negotiations for membership within four years. Upon accession, government agencies will award contracts in a transparent manner. Russia will apply the provisions of the WTO Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights including provisions for enforcement, without recourse to any transitional period.
A customs union between Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus became effective January 1, 2010. All customs borders were removed between the three countries on July 1, 2011. From January 1, 2012, the three states will be a single economic area.
For U.S. companies to receive full benefit from Russia’s accession, Congress must lift the Jackson-Vanik amendment with respect to free emigration from Russia and authorize the extending of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to Russia.
The Russian government will provide annual reports to WTO members on developments in its on-going privatization program. According to a recent analysis by the Peterson Institute for International Economics, “US exports to Russia could double over the next five years—từ $9 tá»· đồng 2010 đến $19 tá»·—adding jobs in the services, nông nghiệp, manufacturing, and high-tech sectors.” Joining the WTO now will be advantageous to Russia and its trading partners if Russia can overcome its past tendencies to use import restrictions to protect domestic suppliers that cannot compete in world markets.
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