BAKU, Azerbaijan, Jun. 24
By Nargiz Sadikhova - Trend:
Kazakhstan may prohibit import of some petroleum products, Trend reports with reference to the published law draft entitled ‘On some issues of the supply of petroleum products to Kazakhstan’ and posted for public discussion on the official website of Electronic government of Kazakhstan.
The public discussion will go on till Jul. 9, 2020. In the case that the bill is approved the ban on import of petrol, jet fuel and diesel fuel will be introduced in Kazakhstan.
It will be prohibited to import these products via road, railway transport and pipelines. The prohibition will be in force till Sept. 1, 2020 in the case the law is adopted.
The transit of petrol, jet fuel and diesel fuel will still be allowed.
Kazakhstan’s Vice Minister of Energy Asset Magauov said earlier that Kazakhstan has undertaken unprecedented measures to support country’s oil refining industry which include:
- suspension of restrictions on transporting petroleum products via road transport outside the country;
- suspension of prohibition on exporting petroleum products (including diesel and cars petrol) outside the Eurasian Customs Union (EACU);
- exemption producers of gasoline and diesel fuel sold for export from paying excise taxes;
- introduction of restrictions on railway supplies of petrol and diesel fuel from Russia to Kazakhstan; and
- zeroing the rates of export customs duties on petroleum products, including gasoline, diesel fuel and fuel oil.
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