{"id":447203,"date":"2019-05-05T11:39:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T11:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=447203"},"modified":"2019-05-05T11:49:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T11:49:33","slug":"prime-minister-filip-helped-ribnita-metallurgical-plant-escape-ukraines-sanctions-rise-moldova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/prime-minister-filip-helped-ribnita-metallurgical-plant-escape-ukraines-sanctions-rise-moldova\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how Prime Minister Filip helped the Ribnita Metallurgical Plant escape Ukraine’s sanctions \/\/ RISE Moldova"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Moldovan Prime Minister Pavel Filip helped one of the budget-forming enterprises of self-proclaimed Transnistria, MMZ (Ribnita Metallurgical Plant)<\/strong>, to come out from under the sanctions of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

A copy of the letter came to the disposal of the editorial offices of RISE Moldova<\/a> and the Radio Svoboda<\/a>, in which the head of the Moldovan government demanded from the Ukrainian leadership not only the lifting of the embargo but also the termination of the investigation regarding the plant.<\/p>\n

Even during the duration of the sanctions, Ukrainian exporters of scrap, with the help of Chisinau intermediaries, managed to bypass the embargo on supplies for MMZ for about a year. Read more on the case here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Moldovan Prime Minister Pavel Filip and President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko reached mutual compromise \/\/ Photo: press service of the President of Ukraine<\/p><\/div>\n

Moldova, PM Filip requested the reduction, twice, of export taxes applied to this undertaking, arguing that they would be an administrative barrier.<\/p>\n

In addition, he requested the cessation of the anti-dumping investigation against the plant as unfounded and the suspension of the individual licensing regime until the final court decision.<\/p>\n

Just 10 days after PM Filip’s letter was sent, the Kiev authorities excluded the Metallurgical Plant from the list of entities subject to sanctions.<\/p>\n

Instead, they included a company in Chisinau (Novastal Prim SRL) on the list, which has last year interfered with the import of scrap metal from Ukraine to the Metallurgical Plant, thereby circumventing the sanction regime imposed by Kiev.<\/p>\n

Asked if he had signed such a letter, Pavel Filip ran away from the press.<\/p>\n

“We’ll talk some other time,” he said briefly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n