The EU announced the details of new export and import sanctions against Russia.

Export restrictions will affect plants, photographic film, printing ink and paper. The European Union banned the import of seafood, silver, timber to Russia and introduced quotas for the import of Russian potash fertilizers

The European Union has expanded export and import sanctions against Russia, follows from a document published in the Official Journal of the EU.

Export restrictions are subject to:

flowers (roses, rhododendrons, azaleas), as well as tubers and bulbs of plants; hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen; silicon; compounds of silver and gold; paints; ink; camera roll; various types of paper; wool and thread; fire trucks; microscopes.

Import sanctions apply to seafood (crustaceans and caviar), aluminum sheets, silver, timber, and cement.

In addition, the European Union will limit the import of Russian fertilizers. The allowable amount of imported potassium chloride will be 837.57 thousand tons, other fertilizers containing potassium - 1.57 million tons.

The introduced restrictions do not apply to deliveries before July 10 under contracts concluded before April 9, 2022.

The EU allowed companies to fulfill contracts with Russia for leasing aircraft concluded before February 26 and accept payments on them. After the expiration of the contracts, the aircraft becomes the property of the Russian airline. Prior to this, Brussels obliged leasing companies to terminate contracts with Russian carriers until the end of March, after which these aircraft began to be arrested abroad. President Vladimir Putin has since allowed foreign leased aircraft to be registered in Russia for use on domestic flights.

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Extended sanctions imply a ban on the registration of trusts in the interests of Russians and Russian legal entities.

The EU imposed sanctions against Deripaska, Gref and 214 other Russians Politics

On April 8, the EU imposed new sanctions against Russia. They involve a ban on the purchase, import or transit of coal and other solid fossil fuels; a ban on ships flying the Russian flag to enter EU ports; restrictions on the transportation of goods across the territory of the European Union for Russian and Belarusian companies; restrictions on the export of rocket fuel, quantum computers, high-tech electronics and other goods.

The EU imposed sanctions against shipbuilding and weapons companies, froze the assets of Otkritie, VTB, Novikombank and Sovcombank. Businessmen, media managers, officials fell under the new personal sanctions of Brussels.