Tag: Government of the Russian Federation

Government allowed chips export to unfriendly countries

The Government of the Russian Federation made amendments in Decree No. 313 dated 09.03.22. The introduced changes allow the export of chips and wood shavings to some countries including the Republic of Korea via three sea terminals (Vladivostok,...

Russian Timber Journal 10-2022: Top 100 Russian timber industry companies in 2021; sawn timber transit through Kazakhstan is banned for Russian exporters; Government of the Russian Federation is planning to set the priorities of sawn timber transportation eastwards by railway; Russia increased its plywood production for the first time in a long while; timber harvest in the Vologda Region dropped by a third in Q2 – Q3 2022; Pestovsky LPK suspends production

Russian Timber Journal 10-2022: WhatWood Analytics Agency prepared the next rating of TOP 100 Russian timber industry companies in 2021; Russian timber enterprises are asking the authorities to lift the restrictions on transiting dried sawn timber through Kazakhstan...

Government of the Russian Federation amended the procedure of identifying checkpoints for exporting certain types of timber

Decree No. 2133 dated 24.11.2022 introduces changes in some statutory instruments to specify the checkpoints for exporting certain types of timber from Russia. The Decree comes into effect on December 26, 2022. Specifically, a new subparagraph amends Decree...

Government of the Russian Federation is planning to set the priorities of sawn timber transportation eastwards by railway

On November 28, Viktoria Abramchenko, Deputy Chair of the Government of the Russian Federation, who supervises the timber industry, sent a letter to the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Transport, instructing them to consider,...

The Wooden Housing Construction Association submitted a package of measures to support the domestic timber industry to the Government of the Russian Federation

The Wooden Housing Construction Association approached the expert board of the Federation Council with a package of proposed measures to support the timber industry under the conditions of sanctions pressure. Members of the Association propose, for instance, to...

Almost all woodworking products included in the list of goods eligible for transportation subsidies

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation has announced the procedure for selecting Russian industrial enterprises eligible for receiving federally funded subsidies to compensate for the costs of transportation of industrial goods. The rules were approved by Decree of the Government of the...

Equipment for MDF production will be VAT exempt

The list of equipment whose import will be exempt from the Value-Added Tax (VAT) now includes a line of equipment (including spare parts and components) required for MDF production. The corresponding Decree was signed by Mikhail Mishustin, Chairman...

Russian Timber Journal 11-2021: Interview with Metin Mete, General Manager at HAYAT Russia; U.S. has decided to almost double the duties on Canadian softwood lumber; U.S. homebuilding surged to an eight-month high in November 2021; Government of the Russian Federation approved the purchase of 75% of RFP Group by a Japanese investor; Russian Railways reports a significant reduction of timber cargo export from Russia in December

Russian Timber Journal 11-2021: Metin Mete, General Manager at HAYAT Russia: “The whole market of paper tissue products is growing by an average of 5% a year”; U.S. has decided to almost double the duties on Canadian softwood lumber...

Government of the Russian Federation left two railway border crossing stations for roundwood export

On July 20, 2021, the Government of the Russian Federation adopted Decree No. 1225 stipulating the points of crossing the Russian state border for exporting from the Russian territory the commodities classified under commodity item 4403 of the...

Russia is implementing a tool of growing private forests on agricultural lands for the first time

New Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1509 of September 21, 2020 “On features of using, safeguarding, protecting and reproducing forests located in agricultural lands” permits forest management activities, including timber harvesting, in agricultural lands;...

Russian Timber Journal 09-2020: how a ban on exports of softwood and hardwood logs and precious hardwood will impact the Russian timber industry; the Government of the Russian Federation is adopting measures to encourage wood processing; interview with Alexey Ryzhikov, Saint Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange (SPIMEX) CEO; EU to launch anti-dumping procedure for birch plywood imports from Russia

Russian Timber Journal 09-2020: Vladimir Putin gave a directive to introduce a ban on exporting unprocessed or roughly processed timber products from Russian as of January 1, 2022, how this decision will impact the Russian timber industry; the Government of...

The Government hopes to reduce wood waste by exporting wood pellets

The Russian Government hopes to reduce the number of wood waste landfills in the country by encouraging exports of wood pellets and briquettes that can be used as biofuel. That was announced by the press office of the...