Almost all details of export deals were included in the closed list: what is being shipped and in what quantity, at what cost, who the seller and buyer are, which carriers, freight forwarders, and insurers are involved in the supply, and how settlements are carried out. Also banned are details about vessels and container numbers, routes, sea terminals and their operators, warehouse coordinates, shipment dates, and transshipment dates.
Access to aggregated customs export statistics, to processing volumes at Russian refineries, and to data on how much AI-92 and higher gasoline and diesel fuel the largest oil companies plan to sell and sell on the exchange is also restricted. Companies that dominate the market are required to sell part of their fuel through exchange trading, and the government must determine the exact list of goods within 10 days according to customs nomenclature codes.
The decree does not say what liability is imposed for violating the ban. Officially, it is described as a response to the “unfriendly and contrary to international law” actions of the United States and its allies, and Reuters writes that the document’s goal is to make it harder to monitor compliance with Western sanctions. Authorities have not closed such data for the first time: in spring 2023, Rosstat stopped publishing data on oil production, in May 2024 data on gasoline production disappeared, and in August of the same year — statistics on diesel, fuel oil, and other petroleum products. As The Bell notes, then it was about official statistics, but now the dissemination of such information is prohibited for everyone except the companies themselves.
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