New scoreboard is for monitoring the dynamics of exports of sanctioned goods
The State Data Agency (Statistics Lithuania) has created and is starting to publish a scoreboard for the export of sanctioned goods, which allows monitoring the dynamics of export of sanctioned goods since 2015.
The scoreboard can be found here.
Purpose of this scoreboard is to provide the public with open information about how export of goods to the European Union states and other countries is changing after the start of the war in Ukraine, and to ensure the monitoring of the effectiveness of application of sanctions in Lithuania.
“The EU has already announced more than a dozen sanction packages aimed at limiting Russia's access to technology and goods needed to conduct hostilities. We hope that this data scoreboard will be an important help for non-governmental organizations, politicians and the public to monitor how sanctions work and how it is intended to circumvent them," notices Dr Jūratė Petrauskienė, Director General of the State Data Agency.
Sanctioned goods presented on the scoreboard are divided into three lists. List of goods vital for Russia mainly includes industrial goods which are subject to EU sanctions and whose trade flows through certain third countries to Russia are unusual. War-use goods - list of prohibited dual-use and advanced technology goods used in Russian military systems found on the battlefield in Ukraine or relevant to the development, production or use of these systems. The national list of controlled dual-use goods approved by the Government includes mainly products with microelectronic and semiconductor components.
The analysed countries are divided into three groups according to the potential to re-export sanctioned goods to Russia: the highest risk (Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Sakartvelo), high risk (Azerbaijan, Serbia, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Republic of Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina), potentially high risk (Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Mongolia, the United Arab Emirates), as well as neighbouring countries (Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Finland), and other countries and territories not included in the previously mentioned groups.
After Russia launched the war against Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the European Union applied various types of sanctions and restrictions to Russia. Export bans introduced mean that EU Member States cannot sell certain goods to Russia. Economic sanctions apply to advanced technologies, transportation equipment, energy industry equipment, aerospace goods, maritime navigation goods, various dual-use goods and other goods that could increase Russia’s industrial capacity.
Note: only open data is used on the publicly available scoreboard. Competent authorities have the right to access detailed data for trend monitoring and analysis.
To find out more about the scoreboard can contact by e-mail: [email protected].