15.09.2026 Trade & Markets #EAEU #Russia #Import #Export #Trade agreements

EAEU and Mongolia agree to nearly double meat supply volumes for 2027

On September 14, 2026, the Joint Committee for implementing the EAEU-Mongolia Interim Trade Agreement, which has been in force since July 22, 2026, held its first meeting in Ulaanbaatar (EEC press release). The committee was co-chaired by EEC Minister for Trade Andrei Slepnev and Mongolia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Development Jadambyn Enkhbayar; Mongolian Prime Minister Nyam-Osoryn Uchral and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk also took part.

Meat: almost double the current volume

The parties set an indicative volume of Mongolian meat supplies to the EAEU for 2027 at 11,600 tonnes, up from the current 5,000-6,000 tonnes (alta.ru citing PRIME). Slepnev pointed to Soviet-era supply levels of 50,000 tonnes as a longer-term benchmark and noted progress in removing veterinary risks.

The meeting also approved measures on veterinary-sanitary control and technical regulation — removing veterinary barriers is described as the condition for expanding Mongolian meat supplies (alta.ru citing PRIME).

What the EAEU is asking of Mongolia in return

The EAEU raised the issue of market access in Mongolia for tobacco products, eggs, canned fish and meat, alcoholic beverages and flour (EEC press release). Mongolian officials were presented with the EAEU's unified customs transit system, introduced under an agreement dated December 26, 2024. Ahead of the committee meeting, business representatives from Russia's Irkutsk region told Slepnev that barriers to EAEU products, chicken eggs in particular, still restrict access to the Mongolian market (EEC press release).

From an interim deal to a permanent one

In parallel, Ulaanbaatar hosted the second Russia-Mongolia Regional Forum on September 14-15, gathering more than 220 participants from 14 regions of the two countries (alta.ru citing PRIME). Overchuk said that once the interim agreement's first three-year term expires, the parties could move toward a permanent, full-scale free trade agreement. Slepnev voiced a similar position at the committee meeting, pointing to the need to move toward concluding a full-format, permanent free trade agreement (EEC press release).

The interim agreement itself was signed on June 27, 2025 in Minsk and zeroes out or reduces duties on 367 tariff subheadings for each side (EEC press release, May 22); it covers roughly 90% of bilateral trade turnover (alta.ru citing PRIME). It runs for three years with automatic renewal for another three-year period; within a year after the first term expires, the parties will begin reviewing the agreement with the aim of eliminating duties across nearly the entire trade nomenclature (EEC press release, May 22). For importers of Mongolian meat and EAEU exporters of eggs, flour, canned goods and alcohol, this means current market-access terms are not final — a broader review is already scheduled for the coming years, while the committee has now set the first indicative benchmarks for 2027.

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