The Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia came into existence on January 1, 2010[1] between the states of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia. The Customs Union was launched as a first step towards forming a broader European Union-type economic alliance of former Soviet states.[2] The member states are planning to continue with economic integration and were set to remove all customs borders between each other after July 2011. On 19 November 2011, the member states put together a joint commission on fostering closer economic ties, planning to create aEurasian Union by 2015.[3][4] Since January 1, 2012, the three states are a single economic space called Common Economic Space to promote further economic integration.[4][5] The Eurasian Economic Commission is the regulatory agency for the Customs Union and the Eurasian Economic Community.[4] The United States is opposed to the Customs Union, seeing it as an attempt to reestablish a Russian dominated USSR-type union amongst the Post-