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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Karen Freifeld

From sunglasses to milking machines, US halts more exports to Russia

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a bilateral meeting with Fumio Kishida, Japan's prime minister, not pictured, ahead of the Group of Seven (G-7) leaders summit in Hiroshima, Japan, on Thursday, May 18, 2023. Kiyoshi Ota/Pool via REUTERS

The Biden administration halted the export of a wide range of consumer goods to Russia on Friday and added 71 companies to a trade blacklist, as the Group of Seven wealthy nations announced new sanctions on Moscow over its war in Ukraine.

The new curbs targeted items that can be used to help Russia's military, including items used in daily life like clothes dryers, snow plows and milking machines, which the U.S. thinks could be repurposed to support Moscow's war machine.

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