🇪🇺List of goods under EU sanctions

EU sanctions do not close trade with Russia across the board. They prohibit defined categories of goods, each tied to a customs code and a specific article of Council Regulation (EU) No 833/2014 — in force since 31 July 2014 and rewritten with every package since February 2022, twenty of them by mid-2026, the latest adopted on 23 April 2026. Every new package reshuffles the annexes: entries are added, codes refined, thresholds revised. A parallel regime, Council Regulation (EC) No 765/2006, carries most of the same restrictions across to Belarus.

How the list is built

The list combines two distinct prohibitions inside the Regulation. Article 3h bans luxury goods listed in Annex XVIII. Article 3k bans industrial and dual-capacity goods listed in Annex XXIII — the economically critical items that feed Russia's industrial base. One prohibition targets prestige consumption, the other raw materials, chemicals, metals and machinery; both catch related technical assistance and financing alongside the goods themselves.

Classification runs on the Combined Nomenclature, so the control point is the CN code in the export declaration, not the commercial name of the product. The luxury ban first appeared in the fourth package in March 2022, and the annexes and thresholds have been revised several times since; in parallel the EU is closing circumvention routes through third countries. In practice three checks matter: the exact CN classification, the end-use of the item, and a "No Russia" clause in contracts with third-country counterparties — recent packages deliberately target re-export through intermediaries, so the absence of a Russian consignee is no longer enough.

Risk categories

The luxury block (Annex XVIII) applies once value passes EUR 300 per item, measured on the statistical value declared at export; some entries are banned at any price. Inside: alcohol, perfumes and cosmetics, leather and furs, caviar and truffles, works of art and antiques, jewellery, pearls and precious metals, watches, sports equipment, musical instruments over EUR 1,500. Vehicles and equipment carry their own thresholds: EUR 50,000 for cars and other passenger transport, EUR 5,000 for motorcycles, EUR 750 for household electronics, EUR 1,000 for audio and video equipment.

The industrial block (Annex XXIII) runs far wider and mostly without thresholds: inorganic and organic chemicals, mineral products and fuels, plastics and rubber, wood and paper, textiles, stone and glass, metals and articles thereof, machinery and electrical equipment, transport from railway stock to aircraft. The logic is simple: anything able to feed the industrial and military-industrial base is taken out of circulation — down to pen nibs.

What it means for a private client

For a family office the list surfaces wherever assets move: buying and selling art and collectibles, high-value watches, cars and wine, shipping personal effects, gifting. The prohibition applies to private transactions as much as to commercial ones — selling a painting or a car to a Russian-resident buyer, or sending such an item to Russia, falls under the sanctions however "personal" the deal. Narrow exemptions exist — travellers' personal effects, diplomatic needs — but they are read strictly.

Any such operation is screened by a bank or neobank for sanctions risk — as part of source of funds control and correspondent-banking compliance; at the slightest doubt the payment is stalled or rejected. The topic is covered more broadly in the notes on AML/KYC for private clients and on the status of unfriendly countries.

Full list as a file

We maintain the full structured list — every category, CN code and description — as a separate file, checked against the current annexes.

Sources

• Regulation (EU) No 833/2014 — EUR-Lex
• European Commission FAQ on luxury goods
• EU sanctions timeline — Consilium

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