The director of Russia's trade representative office in Belgrade, Yevgeny Kudinov, said that the list of products from Serbia for which customs will not be paid in exports to the Russian Federation, will soon be expanded.

"We are coming to the end of harmonization of the intergovernmental protocol, on the basis of which the number of duty free products in the free trade agreement will be increased," Kudinov told in Leskovac.

Kudinov, who visited several companies in the Jablanica and Pcinj districts, with representatives of Belarus, said that, since the start of implementation of the 2000 free trade agreement, trade between Russia and Serbia has grown tenfold, but that this agreement is still not being used in sufficient measure.

Kudinov pointed out that much work has to be done in the meantime, primarily on the harmonization of standards of Serbian products with those of the customs union of the Russian Federation, Belarus and Kazakhstan.