The restrictions run until December 31, 2027.
Belarus’ National Legal Internet Portal published the order, which also blocks trailers registered in Poland and Lithuania and Polish passenger cars providing international transport services.
Violations will be treated as performing international road transport without authorization and punished under administrative rules, authorities said.
Vehicles already inside Belarus must be moved to locations designated by the government.
Exemptions cover specific cargo, including postal shipments, humanitarian aid, live animals, medical products, raw materials for veterinary medicines, blood, human organs and tissues, among others.
Empty vehicles and trailers returning to the EU after deliveries are also excluded.
Lithuanian media linked the step to decisions by Lithuania and Poland to shut the Belarus border.
Lithuania closed its land frontier for a month after a spate of meteorological and smuggling balloons entering its airspace, which forced Vilnius airport to halt operations four times in a week.
Polish government spokesman Adam Szłapka said last Thursday that Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė agreed Poland would reopen crossings with Belarus around mid-November.
Tusk later said two posts—Bobrowniki and Kuźnica—could reopen “on a trial basis” following consultations with Lithuania.
Trade groups have warned of severe fallout.
Lithuanian news agency ELTA said the blow would hit firms moving goods from China to the EU via Russia and Belarus, many registered in the Baltics and Poland and employing workers from Central Asia, Georgia and Ukraine.
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said last week the bloc was ready to impose further sanctions on Belarus unless it halted “hybrid actions” against Lithuania.
She condemned persistent incursions of balloons from Belarus that disrupted hundreds of flights and caused losses at Lithuanian airports, calling them a bid to intimidate EU citizens and a direct threat to civil aviation.
Kallas said the balloons form part of a broader hybrid campaign that includes state-sponsored migrant smuggling, and urged Minsk to immediately control its airspace and borders, adding that the EU stands in full solidarity with Lithuania.
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Source: PAP, IAR