From September 10, the mandatory minimum assortment in retail will be supplied by Belarusian-produced goods, while goods from other Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) countries—Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia—will be classified as foreign goods and will no longer serve as the minimum assortment. This is stipulated in the decree of the Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade (MART) of Belarus No. 48 dated August 20, 2026.

MART explained that it adopted this decree temporarily, “for national security reasons.” The duration of its validity remains unknown.

First Deputy Minister of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade Natalia Vasilevskaya commented on the innovations on September 7: “The mandatory assortment list is the minimum amount of goods that must be on the shelf in a store, according to its format and sales area. The list that is set as mandatory is not so extensive, and today it will make the shelf more accessible for domestic goods. This will lead to domestic goods being presented in greater quantity, if that was not the case before, for our consumer. At the same time, having that minimum list of goods provided for by the decree, no one restricts the seller, when there is demand for foreign‑origin goods, to have a broader range. Meet the minimum – and please offer foreign goods – Eurasian ones first, and not only. At the same time, instead of foreign goods, the assortment list of Belarusian goods will not be presented, but together. At the same time, priority is given to domestic goods.”

Who must comply with the assortment lists

The lists of mandatory goods themselves have not changed. Their compliance is mandatory for all trading enterprises – from a small village shop to hypermarkets.

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