Trade
Russia May Lodge WTO Complaint Over EU’s Kaliningrad Blockade
- In June Lithuania applied EU sanctions on the Russian enclave
- Lithuanian president won’t give in to Russia’s ‘provocations’
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The Russian government may lodge a World Trade Organization complaint against Lithuania to review the European Union’s restrictions on Kaliningrad, according to a report published state-run Russian news service Tass.
The EU has imposed several rounds of sanctions against Russia and revoked its most-favored-nation trading rights in response to President Vladimir Putin’s war with Ukraine. That triggered a dispute in June as Lithuania adopted those restrictions and eventually set a three-year ceiling on the transit of steel and other sanctioned goods to the Russian enclave.