On December 27, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed Further measures to ensure equal conditions for doing business and a fair competition Decree.
The document extends the period of application of the zero rate of import customs duty on goods specified in Appendix No. 1 to the presidential decree of May 31, 2022 and the decree of March 23, 2023 until January 1, 2025. Both decrees are aimed at ensuring price stability in consumer markets.
There are 59 categories of food and other products in question:
- Fresh, chilled, frozen edible offal of cattle, sheep, goats, horses, mules or hinnies
- Fish
- Fish fillets
- Fish, dried, salted or in brine
- Milk and cream, condensed or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
- Butter and other fats and oils obtained from milk; dairy spreads
- Eggs, in shell, fresh, canned or boiled
- fresh or dried Bananas, including plantains,
- Citrus fruits, fresh or dried (except lemon)
- Coffee, whether or not roasted, with or without caffeine; coffee husks and skins of coffee beans; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion
- Tea in primary packaging with a net content of not more than 3 kg in disposable packaging
- Other tea in primary packaging with a net content of not more than 3 kg
- Soyabean oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but without change in chemical composition
- Peanut oil and its fractions, whether or not refined
- Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined
- Rapeseed oil (from rapeseed or colza) or mustard oil and their fractions
- Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions
- Margarine
- Malt extract
- Tapioca and its substitutes prepared from starch, in the form of flakes, granules, balls, grains or other similar forms
- Corn flakes; cereals (other than corn) in the form of grain or in the form of flakes or grain otherwise processed
- Bakery yeast
- Wheat or wheat-rye flour
- Fresh, chilled or frozen meat of pigs; other meat and edible meat offal; lard of pigs and fat of poultry, salted, in brine, dried or smoked;
- Yoghurt, buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, kefir and other fermented milk and cream, whether or not condensed, with or without added sugar, fruit, nuts or cocoa;
- Cheeses and curds
- Fresh, dried, cooked, frozen or canned eggs without shell and egg yolks,
- Fresh or chilled onions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other allium vegetables,
- Fresh or chilled lettuce and chicory,
- Dried, peeled or unpeeled, split or unsplit pulses,
- Fresh or dried dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, mangoes and other fruits,
- Fresh Apples, pears and quince,
- Other fruits, fresh
- Flours of cereal grains other than wheat or wheat-rye
- Groats, wholemeal flours and granules of cereal grains
- Potato flour, powder, flakes, granules
- Flours of dried legumes, root vegetables, tubers or products of group 08
- Starch, inulin
- Coconut, palm kernel or babassu oil, whether or not refined
- Preserved meat, offal, blood or insect products
- Canned fish and caviar, caviar substitutes
- Molasses obtained from the extraction or refining of sugar
- Sugar confectionery, including white chocolate, not containing cocoa
- Chocolate and other preparations containing cocoa
- Pasta, whether or not cooked, filled or not, including spaghetti, lasagne, ravioli, couscous
- Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits, wafers, rice paper
- Jams, jellies, marmalades, fruit and nut purees, pastes, processed fruit and vegetable products
- Preserved fruits, nuts and parts of plants, whether or not containing additives
- Extracts, essences and concentrates of coffee, tea or mate, roasted chicory, coffee substitutes
- Sauces and condiments, mustard powder and prepared mustard
- Ready-made soups, broths and preparations for them, homogenized products
- Mineral and carbonated waters without added sugar or sweeteners
- Mineral and carbonated waters with added sugar or sweeteners
- Hair products: shampoos, conditioners, styling products
- Shaving products, deodorants, bath compositions, cosmetics and toilet products
- Children's clothing and accessories
- Children's shoes with an insole length of less than 24 cm
- Flour products: couscous, lasagne, dumplings, ravioli, spaghetti and other pasta
- Fruits, nuts and parts of plants, preserved or prepared with or without added sugar, with or without added alcohol.