Australia imposes 35% tariffs on all goods from Russia and Belarus

Prime minister Scott Morrison on Thursday announced that Australia would impose an additional tariff of 35% on all imports from Russia and Belarus.

In a statement, released hours before President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine was scheduled to speak to the Parliament of Australia, Mr Morrison said the government was ''taking further action to increase the economic costs to Russia following its illegal invasion of Ukraine, supported by Belarus''.