The Russian government has submitted a draft law to the State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia (legislature).

Pursuant to this bill, the Federal Customs Service of Russia will be empowered to compile statistics on the mutual trade between Russia and the other Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) states, reported RIA Novosti news agency of Russia.

The EEU members are Armenia, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.