In November 2023, the value of dual-use goods fell to $8.4 million, the lowest level since the summer of 2022.
Turkey in October and November 2023 began to reduce supplies to Russia of dual-use goods that can be used for military purposes.
Forbes, citing data from the Turkish Institute of Statistics, writes that the sample included 45 categories of goods from the Common High Priority Items List, which was compiled by the USA, EU, UK and Japan.
“The list includes goods important for the military industry with a high risk of “illegal redirection to Russia”: electronics, chips, semiconductors, printed circuit boards, communications and navigation equipment, optical sights,” the report says.
In November 2023, the value of dual-use goods fell to $8.4 million, the lowest level since August 2022. The publication noted that the decline cannot be explained by seasonality, since no decline in exports of this group of goods to the Russian Federation was recorded in 2021–2022.
Supplies to the Russian Federation of goods in the category “Electrical equipment for switching or protecting electrical circuits, as well as for making connections to electrical circuits” began to decline since September last year. This category accounts for 39% of the total cost of supply of goods from the list.
In total, exports of dual-use goods from Turkey to Russia following the results of the first year of Russia’s war in Ukraine increased threefold, to $70.9 million.
“Total exports for January – November 2023 exceeded $129 million, which is two times higher than in 2022 and almost six times higher than the level of 2021,” the report says.
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