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Russia imposed a three-month ban on exports outside the Eurasian Economic Union of certain petrochemicals, including toluene, benzene, xylenes and phenol. The government cited the need to keep feedstock flowing to domestic industry.
The ban covers petrochemical feedstocks rather than fuels or feed inputs, so its direct impact on feed commodity prices is limited.
After 175 past neutral policy events, Crude Oil (Brent) moved a median -0.9% over 5 sessions (45% higher; middle half -3.6% to +3.0%), and +0.7% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.