The volume of goods imported to Russia by parallel imports since May has already reached about $6.5 billion - head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Manturov

He noted that it is difficult to give "precise forecasts" on the final volume of parallel imports.

But based on the statistics for the past 2.5 months, we can expect that the volume of imports through this mechanism by the end of the year will be about $16 billion, Manturov added.