The Ministry of economic development has developed a draft government resolution "On amending the rates of export customs duties on goods exported from the Russian Federation outside the States – participants of agreements on the Customs Union". According to the document, from September 1, 2014 the export duty on unalloyed Nickel is 2.5% of the customs value.
Export duties on refined copper and alloys of copper and zinc is 30% from customs cost, but not less than 1,000 kg for E252 Copper cathodes no.