🇪🇺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-one of them by August 2026. The latest is the 21st package, adopted by the Council on 23 July 2026: its sectoral measures were enacted by Council Regulation (EU) 2026/1848 of 23 July 2026 amending Regulation (EU) No 833/2014, published in the Official Journal on 23 July 2026 and in force from 24 July 2026. The preceding 20th package was 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.

The codes are taken from the consolidated text of Regulation 833/2014 as it stands from 24 July 2026; the Regulation, not this page, is the legal text.

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.

A code preceded by "ex" covers only the goods described in the annex entry, not the whole heading; a two-digit entry covers an entire chapter of the Combined Nomenclature.

Annex XVIII: luxury goods (Article 3h)

Article 3h bans the sale, supply, transfer or export of the luxury goods in Annex XVIII to any person in Russia or for use in Russia, together with related technical assistance, brokering, financing and intellectual property rights. Under Article 3h(2a) the ban applies once the value exceeds EUR 300 per item unless the annex sets a different threshold: EUR 750 for domestic electronics, EUR 1 000 for sound and image recording apparatus, EUR 1 500 for musical instruments, EUR 50 000 for vehicles and EUR 5 000 for motorbikes and bicycles; optical articles are caught at any value. Two exemptions survive: goods for the official purposes of diplomatic and consular missions, and personal jewellery under CN 7113 and 7114 carried by a traveller for personal use and not for sale. Every code in the annex carries the prefix "ex": only the goods described in the category are covered, not the whole heading.

The same luxury ban in the UK and US regimes

A watch, a car or a painting leaving Europe for a Russian buyer usually has more than one regime attached to it: British goods, a US-origin item or a US person in the chain bring in their own lists, and the thresholds do not match.

The British thresholds come from Schedule 3A and the American ones from Supplement No. 5 to Part 746 of the Export Administration Regulations. The practical rule is to test the item against the lowest threshold that can reach it. A £40 cigar sits far below the EU's €300 line but is caught by the UK list at £10 per item; a US-made accessory is controlled under the EAR with its parts even where the European entry is framed around the finished good. The American list also runs to Belarus in the same section, where the EU uses a separate regulation. Switzerland transposes the EU packages into its own ordinance, so a Swiss export is checked against the Swiss text rather than Annex XVIII itself. How the regimes relate on ownership, reach and licensing is set out in the regime matrix of the sanctions map.

Annex XXIII: industrial goods (Article 3k)

Article 3k bans the export of goods "which could contribute in particular to the enhancement of Russian industrial capacities". Annex XXIII has no value threshold: 521 entries across 54 chapters of the Combined Nomenclature, six of them entire chapters — salt and stone (25), ores (26), iron and steel (72), copper (74, except 7401 00 00), aluminium (76) and complete industrial plants (98). For private clients the decisive lines sit in chapter 87: a passenger car with a petrol or diesel engine over 1 900 cm³, and every hybrid and electric car (8703 40 to 8703 90), is banned at any price — the EUR 50 000 threshold of Annex XVIII only matters for cars with a smaller engine. Since the 21st package the ban on listed pipes, pumps and drilling machinery also covers Russia's exclusive economic zone and continental shelf (Article 3k(1b)); the transit through Russia of the 42 goods in Annex XXXVII is prohibited (Article 3k(1a)); the last transitional list, Annex XXIIIH, expired on 25 July 2026.

Common high priority items (Annex XL)

Annex XL lists the 50 codes — machine tools, bearings, semiconductors, telecommunications and navigation equipment, aircraft parts and measuring instruments — that the EU, the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan identified as the components most often recovered from Russian weapons. All of them are already banned for Russia under Articles 2 and 2a. In addition, an exporter selling them to any third country other than the partner countries in Annex VIII must write a "no re-export to Russia" clause into the contract (Article 12g) and, since 26 December 2024, must keep a documented risk assessment and controls against diversion (Article 12gb); the same due-diligence duty covers the two codes of Annex XLVIII, generating sets (8502 20) and other switches (8536 50). Banks and payment providers screen payments for these codes even when the counterparty sits outside Russia.

The other goods annexes of the Regulation

The luxury and industrial lists are two of the goods regimes in Regulation 833/2014. The others work the same way — a CN code in an annex and an article that names the prohibited act — but point in different directions: some ban exports to Russia, some ban imports from Russia into the Union, some ban transit or impose duties on sales to third countries.

Private transactions and bank screening

In family-office practice 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. The import lists work in the other direction: gold, diamonds, caviar and the other goods of Annex XXI cannot be brought from Russia into the Union commercially, and the personal-use exemptions are narrow and specific to each article.

Any such operation is screened by a bank or payment provider 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. If the goods ban is only one of the questions in play, the overall frame — where to start and in what order to work through the rest — is set by the map of the sanctions cluster.