Export of vaccines from Russia exceeded $700 million Russia

increases the supply of vaccines to partner countries. In the summer, Argentina, Kazakhstan, India and other countries purchased more domestic products than in the first five months of the year, customs statistics show

In June-August 2021, RUSSIA sold vaccines to foreign partners in value and physical terms more than in the previous five months. According to the TN VED classification code 3002200009 (“other vaccines for humans”), 203.6 tons of vaccines worth about $410 million were exported this summer, according to the data of the Federal Customs Service. In January-May, it was only 159 tons for $303.6 million.

Every summer month, deliveries of vaccines abroad exceeded $100 million in monetary terms. The maximum supply in physical terms was recorded in August - 105.8 tons (worth $123.8 million). In just eight months, Russia exported 362.5 tons of vaccines worth $713.7 million.

What is exported as "other human vaccines"

Although the FCS does not specify how EXPORT volumes are distributed by type of vaccine, TN VED 3002200009 is the main code for these substances.

In 2020, under this code, according to the analytical company RNC Pharma, 99% of medicines in this category were supplied. It includes, among other things, vaccines against tick-borne encephalitis, combined vaccines against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, against hepatitis A. The exception is vaccines against hepatitis B and rubella, they are exported under separate articles.

The export of vaccines for the prevention of a new CORONAVIRUS infection is also under the TN VED code 3002200009, the Ministry of Industry and Trade specified earlier. They emphasized that the sharp increase in exports this year (in 2020 it was only $9.5 million) is connected precisely with the supply of coronavirus vaccines.

Customs recorded a sharp increase in exports of vaccines from Russia Business

The Russian Direct Investment Fund, the owner of Human Vaccine, which also deals with export contracts, declined to comment. RBC also sent inquiries to the Ministry of HEALTH and the Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology. N.F. Gamaleya (the developer of Sputnik V, the only currently exported vaccine against covid-19 ).