DATE:
08/01/2009
MINSK, Belarus (AFP)--Belarus has raised tariffs for the transit of Russian oil through its territory to Germany, Poland and Ukraine, under a government order which came into force Thursday in a widely expected move.
The oil tariffs were raised by 22.5% to EUR1.47 a metric ton of crude oil pumped through the Druzhba pipeline, Russia's main export pipeline and the longest in the world, said the order published in the official legal register.
A bitter dispute between Russia and Belarus two years ago in which Minsk angered Moscow by imposing a large customs duty on oil transits led to a three- day cut in Russian oil supplies to the European Union.
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