The Belarusian government has decided to introduce previously cancelled export duties on a number of petroleum products from September 1 of this year.
This follows from the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic No. 636 (dated August 30, 2024).
The document was officially published on the country's legal internet portal.
Let us recall that at the beginning of this year, the Belarusian authorities cancelled duties on the export of crude oil, bitumen, fuel oil and some other petroleum products.
Duties were reduced to zero based on an agreement with Russia – the measure was taken in connection with a tax maneuver being carried out in a neighboring state.
But from September 1, export duties are in effect again. They concern liquefied hydrocarbon gases, ethane, butane, and isobutane.
According to the government decree, the duty on liquefied petroleum gases is 20 dollars 80 cents per 1 ton.
The duty on ethane, butane, and isobutane is set at 18 dollars 70 cents per 1 ton.
However, duties on crude oil, fuel oil, bitumen, petroleum jelly and paraffin, waste oil products, gasoline, diesel, benzene, toluene, lubricating oils and some other such products were not introduced, that is, they remain at the $0 mark.
