Exports

Lithuanian customs officers on Tuesday stopped two Tesla Cybertruck electric vehicles from being exported to Belarus.

Lithuanian companies have exported dual-use goods worth at least EUR 130 million to Russia from March 2022 to August 2023 by circumventing sanctions, the public broadcaster’s LRT Investigation Team reported on Tuesday.

Following media reports that a company of Vičiūnai Group exported sanctioned goods to Russia, the Customs Department will launch an investigation.

Belarus announced on 14 March that it was suspending Lithuanian imports in response to Lithuania’s decision to close two more border checkpoints on 1 March.

Belarus on Thursday announced that it is blocking a range of imports from Lithuania after the latter closed two more checkpoints on the border with Belarus, reports AFP.

Lithuania can now export egg products to the United States. The country’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced the news on 15 September. Lithuania became the second EU country after the Netherlands to obtain such a permit, said the State Food and Veterinary Service (VMVT).

The Lithuanian seaport of Klaipeda is the most cost-effective and efficient route for Belarusian exports, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said amid reports that some port operators might be affected by strikes in the neighboring country.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says he has received assurances from his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, that Ukraine will next spring complete its fertilizer market studies that are worrying Lithuanian fertilizer manufacturers.

Lithuanian cheeses, yoghurts and other dairy products are now subject to a new 25-percent import tariff imposed by the United States, according to the US Federal Register.

Lithuania's meat and poultry processor Nematekas has received the green light to export its products to Vietnam.

Krekenavos Agrofirma, a meat processing company owned by the family of Viktor Uspaskich, the founder and chairman of the Lithuanian Labor Party, has become the first Lithuanian company to get the green light for beef exports to China.

Vilnius and Kaisiadorys poultry farms operated by agricultural product processing and food production group KG Group plans to expand exports of its poultry products to Persian Gulf countries.

Lithuanian companies have been allowed to export egg products to New Zealand, the State Food and Veterinary Service announced on Wednesday.

The number of bankruptcies in the Scandinavian markets important for Lithuania rose faster last year and a similar tendency is expected this year as well, the Verslo Zinios business daily writes.

US experts have on Monday started inspecting Lithuania's egg producer Baltic Egg Production, part of Lithuania's Viciunu Grupe business group, willing to export eggs and their products.

Lithuania expects the conclusions of a recent week-long audit by Chinese experts into beef exports from the Baltic country in late summer.

Lithuania's textiles producer Utenos Trikotazas hired six seamstresses from Vietnam in April and plans to increase their number up to 40 by the end of this year since the trial was successful.

Lithuania's agricultural product and foodstuff exports to China are expected to increase at least five-fold in the near future, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Friday.

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