It was announced on Friday that the Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor) circulated an e-mail to its regional subdivisions demanding to perform quality and sanitary tests of products originating from Ukraine. The quality and sanitary tests should be performed with respect to 15 specifically listed types of products: cosmetic products, soap, perfumes (HS code 330300), household chemicals (HS code 340220), wallpaper (HS codes 481420 and 481490), furniture, bedding, toiletry goods, diapers (HS code 961900) etc. Distributors and retailers should be ready that in the course of the nearest days their warehousing and retail premises would be visited by specialists of Rospotrebnadzor that would withdraw products for further tests.
In case the results of such tests would confirm that that the tested samples do not comply with the quality and sanitary requirements, distribution and importation into Russia of the relevant products originating from Ukraine would be prohibited. The initiated testing procedures might have significant impact on the logistics and distribution of the companies (including multinationals) with manufacturing facilities located in Ukraine.
