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...

In May 2013, a trend of reduction of the Russian trade surplus which started in June 2012 continued. The US, Turkey and Japan joined the claim against Russia filed by the European Union on July 2013 to the Court of the World Trade Organization. The Russian side intends to take every effort to...

Continued contraction of the Russian foreign trade turnover is accompanied by adjustments both in commodity composition of trade and its regional pattern. Deteriorated terms of trade posted in H1 2015 became main determinant of the trade balance reduction against H1 2014. The Russian Federation...

In May 2015, downward trend of the main Russian foreign trade indices persisted. In spite of the promises given by the G-20 member states not to introduce new protectionist measures in the sphere of trade, the overall number of trade restrictions goes up. The WTO department of dispute settlement...

In 2015, the RF foreign economic activity was subject to a set of negative factors: significant reduction of prices on all tradable commodities, contraction of external demand due to slowdown of the world economy, compression of domestic demand due to a fall of income and investment....

In early 2017, international financial organizations adjusted their short- and medium-term forecasts. The World Bank report Global Economic Prospects[1], released in January 2017, and estimated global growth in 2016 at a post-crisis low of 2.3%. It was noted that growth in emerging markets and...

Russian Abstract: С момента образования в 1995 году Всемирной торговой организации (ВТО) ставки таможенных тарифов постоянно снижаются. Договоренность стран-участниц ВТО...

Russian Abstract: По мере развития евразийской экономической интеграции увеличивается количество стран, изъявивших желание присоединиться к зоне свободной торговли с...

Amid prolonged trade tensions, high political uncertainties and the COVID-19 pandemic, the global growth outlook has become much worse. In the past year, in global economic growth rates there was a dramatic slowdown both of international trade flows and global production activities. The growing...

In September 2015, the Russian foreign trade turnover was contracting. Deterioration of relations with Turkey, which is a major trading and economic partner of the Russian Federation, added to many negative factors affecting Russian foreign trade