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Countering Russian sanctions evasion and circumvention

Guidance for UK businesses on countering Russian sanctions evasion and circumvention.

Updates to this page

From:
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, Department for Business and Trade and Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation
Published:
7 January 2025
Last updated:
12 March 2026
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  1. Updates made to the UK goods at higher risk of circumvention, and the list of third country exporters.

  2. Changes to terminology from exports to businesses; amended country list and added some higher risk goods.

  3. Added section 6 "Export controls and CHPL" to the guidance, which covers details about the export controls licensing in regard to the common high priority list. "Additional resources" has changed from section 6 to section 7.

  4. First published.

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Countering Russian sanctions evasion - guidance for businesses

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This guidance is specific to trade sanctions targeting Russia, but much of the advice can be translated to other countries the UK government has imposed trade sanctions on, including Belarus, Iran, and North Korea. A full list of UK sanctions regimes is available on GOV.UK.

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