The European Commission on Tuesday proposed tariffs on additional farm imports from Russia and its ally Belarus, in a new effort to choke off revenues to fund Moscow’s war on Ukraine. The 27-nation EU has hit Russia with multiple rounds of sanctions in response to its all-out invasion of its neighbor in 2022.

The European Commission has tabled a proposal to reduce dependence on Russian supplies and support domestic fertiliser production, with farmers seeing an increase in production costs as a risk.

The European Commission proposed on Tuesday imposing tariffs on more agricultural products and certain nitrogen-based fertilisers from Russia and its ally Belarus to prevent a potential threat to EU food security.