Foreign Trade in June 2013

In June 2013, the Russian foreign trade key indicators saw an insignificant growth on a year-on-year basis. Growth in exports was determined by increase in physical volumes of exports against falling export prices, whereas growth in imports was governed by increase in import prices against contracting physical volumes of imports. On September 1, 2013, updates and amendments were made to the common customs tariff of the Customs Union as part of Russia's obligations to the WTO