The Ministry of Industry and Trade will add contact lenses from a number of manufacturers to the list of parallel imports

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia promised to include contact lenses from Johnson & Johnson, Alcon Laboratories Inc. into the list of parallel imports within two weeks. and Bausch & Lomb, the press service of the department said, writes TASS.

“The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia within two weeks will add contact lenses from manufacturers such as Alcon Laboratories Inc., Bausch & Lomb, Johnson & Johnson to the list of parallel imports. Taking into account the fact that under the new sanctions the practice of issuing export licenses for these goods has not yet been formed, this measure will be preventive, aimed at unconditionally providing the Russian market with these products,” the ministry said.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade allowed the exclusion from the list of these products in the future, while maintaining official deliveries.

Earlier, the American company Johnson & Johnson warned partners about the suspension of imports of contact lenses to Russia. Ministry of Industry and Trade declaredthat Russian enterprises have free capacities to establish the production of these products.

Roszdravnadzor against the background of the above-mentioned news informedthat there are no signs of a shortage of contact lenses in Russia. Moreover, the press service of the federal service said that last fall, Johnson & Johnson LLC (representative of Johnson & Johnson Vision Caer, Inc. in the Russian Federation) informed the department about the planned withdrawal from the assortment of one type of contact lenses (1-Day Acuvue True with Hydraclear 1). But at the same time, product deliveries continued until the end of the first quarter of 2023.

As early as May 24, after the information appeared about the occurrence of a shortage of lenses, the Ministry of Industry and Trade announced on the possible inclusion of optics brand products in parallel imports.