EU rejects Russian goods transport of goods between Moscow and Kaliningrad

The European Commission stated in its guidance that transit of goods between Russia and its non-contiguous parts would have to be within the averages recorded in 2019 -- 2021. Lithuania has to restrict the transit of goods once these historic averages are reached.

Several hundred items were included in the transit list, following EU regulations. Their volumes are based on transit applications. Kotryna Dzikarait LTG Communications partner says transit limits for iron and steel, timber, fertilisers, ethylene glycol and some other items have already been reached.

Transit applications between Russia and its Kaliningrad region via Lithuania were rejected until now in isolated cases, following the European Commission's guidance. The rejected applications accounted for up to 5% of all transit applications on the route.

In 2021, the transit of all goods between Russia and Kaliningrad via Lithuania totaled 5.6 million tons. The three-year average of transit of essential goods was 3.1 million tons. Of them, coal products had a value of 1.07 million tons, ferrous metals 0.59 million tons, timber and its products 0.06 million tons, cement 0.26 million tons, food products, beverages, feed and tobacco 0.06 million tons, oil and petroleum products 0.98 million tons and the rest 0.08 million tons.