Russia Sanctions Tracker - Australia

The Australian Government has prohibited the export of the following class of machinery and related goods for Russia) :

1. Interchangeable tools for hand tools, whether or not power-operated, or for machine-tools (for example, for pressing, stamping, punching, tapping, threading, drilling, boring, broaching, milling, turning or screw driving), including dies for drawing or extruding metal, and rock drilling or earth boring tools
2. Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
3. Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles

The Australian Government has prohibited the export of the following class of machinery and related goods for each specified Ukraine region (currently, as at 3 November 2023, being Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk and Sevastopol) :

1. Interchangeable tools for hand tools, whether or not power-operated, or for machine-tools (for example, for pressing, stamping, punching, tapping, threading, drilling, boring, broaching, milling, turning or screw driving), including dies for drawing or extruding metal, and rock drilling or earth boring tools
2. Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
3. Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles

Trade restrictions – increased import tariffs

Australia has extended the additional tariff of 35% on all goods imports from Russia and Belarus until October 2025 (see the entries at 25 April 2023 below for further details). This tariff is in addition to general duty rates that currently apply.

1. Federal State Unitary Enterprise ATOMFLOT;
2. Joint Stock Company Lazurit Design Bureau;
3. A.A. Bochvar High-Technology Research Institute of Inorganic Materials Joint Stock Company;
4. Joint Stock Company State Scientific Centre Research Institute of Atomic Reactor;
5. RENERA;
6. The National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Russian Helicopters Open Joint Stock Company;
7. NPK Tekhmash;
8. Radioavtomatika LLC;
9. The Dalzavod Ship Repair Centre Joint Stock Company;
10. Joint Stock Company Military-Industrial Corporation NPO Mashinostroyenia;
11. Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant Joint Stock Company;
12. Open Joint Stock Company “Balakirev Mechanical Plant”;
13. Krasny Gydropress Joint Stock Company;
14. Zelenodolsk Design Bureau Joint Stock Company;
15. Mytishchinski Mashinostroitelny Zavod, OAO, Ural Civil Aviation Plant JSC, Bryansk Automobile Plant Joint Stock Company;
16. AO Zavod Elekon;
17. Joint Stock Company Machine Building Design Bureau ‘Iskra’ named after I.I. Kartukov;
18. Scientific and Production Association 'Strela' Public Joint Stock Company;
19. Joint Stock Company Center of Research and Technology Services Dinamika;
20. Joint Stock Company Machine-Building Engineering Office Fakel Named After Akademika P. D. Grushinam;
21. Khabarovsk Radio Engineering Plant Joint Stock Company;
22. Mariyskiy Machine-Building Plant Joint Stock Company;
23. Joint Stock Company Technodinamika;
24. Joint Stock Company All-Russian Research Institute Signal;
25. Design Bureau of Special Machine Building Joint Stock Company;
26. The Special Technology Centre LLC;
27. Production Association Urals Optical & Mechanical Plant named after Mr. E.S. Yalamov Joint Stock Company;
28. Electronstandart Russian Research Institute Joint Stock Company;
29. Joint Stock Company Voronezh Semiconductor Devices Factory Assembly;
30. Obninsk Research and Production Enterprise Technologiya named after A.G. Romashin;
31. Joint Stock Company Svetlana Semiconductors; and
32. Scientific and Production Enterprise Radar MMS Joint Stock Company.

4 individuals:

• Yousef Aboutalebi,
• Abdollah Mehrabi,
• Hamid Vahedi, and
• Sayed Hojatollah Qureishi.

4 entities:

• Design and Manufacturing of Aircraft Engines,
• Design and Manufacturing of Aircraft Engines,
• Oje Parvaz Mado Nafar Company, and
• Paravar Pars Company.

25 April 2022

(announced on 1 April 2022)

Trade restrictions – increased import tariffs

(announced 1 April 2022)

Australia issued a formal notification withdrawing entitlements to the Most-Favoured Nation (MFN) tariff treatment and will, from 25 April 2022, apply an additional tariff of 35% to all imports from Russia and Belarus. This will be in addition to general duty rates that currently apply.

The Australian government extended the application of a punitive tariff on goods imported from Russia and Belarus until October 2023 (as noted here).

Certain goods relating to oil, petroleum, coal, and gas will be designated as 'import sanctioned goods' from 25 April 2022.

A full list can be accessed here.

14 entities: Kamaz, Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port, Ruselectronics, United Shipbuilding Corporation, Sevmash, Alrosa, Sovcomflot, Russian Railways, Gazprom, Gazprom Neft, Transneft, Rostelecom, RusHydro, and Gas Industry Insurance Company SOGAZ.

These sanctions target certain defence related entities, shipping companies, a transportation company, and an electronic component company which is responsible for the production of around 80 per cent of all Russian electronic components.

7 April 2022

67 individuals, including a military official and senior Russian government officials.

Please note that Alexander Abramov's listing at 103 was updated on 16 September 2022 (as described here).

14 individuals responsible for the serious corruption Mr Magnistky exposed, and a further 25 individuals that were perpetrators and accomplices of his abuse and death.

[Note: these sanctions are not related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but has been included for completeness for additional sanctions imposed on Russian designated entities and/or individuals.]

11 entities: Sberbank, VTB Bank, Gazprombank, Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs, Rosselkhozbank, Sovcombank, Novikombank, Alfa-Bank, Credit Bank of Moscow, National Wealth Fund of the Russian Federation, and Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.

These sanctions target Russian Government entities responsible for issuing and managing Russia's sovereign debt.

10 individuals: Maria Vladimirovna Zakharova, Vladimir Rudolfovich Solovyov, Konstantin Knyrik, Modest Alexeyevich Kolerov, Yevgeniy Nikolaevich Prilepin, Anton Vyacheslavovich Krasovsky, Arkady Viktorovich Mamontov, Yuriy Anatolyevich Prokofyev, Yuriy Sergeyevich Fedin, and Dmitry Sergeyvich Peskov.

These sanctions target individuals spreading propaganda and/or disinformation.

28 February 2022 

(announced, but not yet implemented) ⁶⁷                                             

Visa restrictions –"golden passports"

Transatlantic task force

Extensions of the Minister's discretion to impose an asset freeze and/or a travel ban on the following class of people:

1. A person or entity that the Minister is satisfied is, or has been, engaging in an activity or performing a function that is of economic or strategic significance to Russia.
2. A current or former Minister or senior official of the Russian Government.
3. An immediate family member of a person mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b).

Sectoral sanctions - Donetsk and Luhansk regions

(updated on 28 March 2022 to reflect amendments made)

On 28 March 2022, references to 'Crimea' and 'Sevastopol' in the Autonomous Sanctions Regulations 2011 were substituted with 'a specified Ukraine region'.

Specified Ukraine region will includes Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Sevastopol, and a region of Ukraine specified by the Minister under regulation 3B. The substitution extends the previous sanctions on Crimea and Sevastopol to now also cover Donetsk and Luhansk. These sanctions largely prohibit trade in the transport, energy, telecommunications, and oil, gas and mineral sectors.