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Irene Robertovna Melkonyan graduated from the Faculty of International Relations of the Yerevan State University in 1996 as well as the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute in 1999.

On February 16, the Eurasian Economic Commission’s Board decided to impose an anti-dumping duty on leaf springs originating from the People's Republic of China. The measure is imposed for five years; the duty amount will be 14.11% of the customs value.

On February 16, the Eurasian Economic Commission’s Board decided to zero out import customs duty rates for certain types of precious and semiprecious stones for a term of two years. In particular, this refers to natural or artificial emeralds, sapphires, rubies, jades, alexandrites, etc. used in the jewelry industry.

On February 16, the Eurasian Economic Commission’s Board reduced the rates of import customs duties on salmon breeding cages from 15% to 0% for one year. Currently, the Eurasian Economic Union does not manufacture equipment of technological level required for fish farming in northern conditions.

On February 16, the Eurasian Economic Commission’s Board zeroed for one year the rates of import customs duties for certain types of carbon and graphite products for aluminum electrolysis.

The Eurasian Economic Commission has partnered the World Construction Championship the final of which is scheduled on April 20-23 in Sochi.

Along with that, according to market experts, the introduction of state regulation has neither restricted competition nor resulted in reducing the number of economic entities or emerging trade barriers.

Artak Kamalyan, Member of the Board – Minister in charge of Industry and Agriculture of the Eurasian Economic Commission, held a meeting with Bakhyt Sultanov, Minister of Trade and Integration of Kazakhstan. The dialogue participants have stressed the importance of crash implementation of activities on the five principal directions of the Eurasian Economic Union development outlined by Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in his address to the Heads of the EAEU States on January 15 this year. The parties have noted that all participants in the integration process should focus on such long-term priorities as maintaining the stability of economic and social systems, improving social welfare, ensuring the progress of each Member State and the EAEU as a whole.

The Eurasian Economic Union may establish a working group on digital transformation at the level of heads of relevant departments. First of all, the working group will be engaged in regulating data turnover. This initiative was put forward by Gegham Vardanyan, Member of the Board – Minister in charge of Internal Markets, Information Support, Information and Communication Technologies of the Eurasian Economic Commission, during the panel session "Digital Agenda in the EAEU Strategy until 2025", held within the "Digital Almaty 2021" forum.

The Eurasian Economic Commission jointly with the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE), the Russian Export Center (REC, JSC) and the Business Council of the Eurasian Economic Union held a webinar "Electronic trading platforms. Transfer of supplies in online mode".