Russian foreign trade tracker
Tracking Russian trade using data from the EU, China, the US, South Korea, Japan, India, the UK, Turkey, Switzerland, Norway, Brazil and Kazakhstan
First published: 10 October 2022
Latest update: 4 February 2026
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Central Bank of Russia stopped publishing detailed trade data but continued releasing summary indicators, such as for the current-account surplus, which reached its highest-ever level in the second quarter of 2022.
To track Russian foreign trade, this dataset collects detailed trade data from European Union countries, China, the United States, South Korea, Japan, India, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Switzerland, Norway, Brazil, and Kazakhstan. These 38 countries accounted for 80% of Russia’s exports and imports in 2019.
This dataset updates and extends most of the data used in the works:
- Darvas, Zsolt and Catarina Martins (2022) ‘The impact of the Ukraine crisis on international trade’, Bruegel Working Paper 20/2022
- Darvas, Zsolt and Catarina Martins (2022) ‘Russia’s huge trade surplus is not a sign of economic strength', Bruegel Blog
This dataset will be updated monthly. Data may change for earlier months due to revisions in the underlying data.
- Partial update up to December 2025. For the US, EU, UK, India and Kazakhstan, data for November 2025 is available. For Brazil, China, Japan, Turkey, South Korea, Switzerland and Norway, data for December 2025 is available. Therefore, data for the aggregate of the 38 countries is available up to November 2025.
- EU-27 imports of "Liquefied propane and butane" (SITC 342) have not been reported since months February 2025. Since the latest available value for the import from Russia in December 2024 was very low at USD 0.01 billion, we assume zero for the months with missing data. These components are shown in Figure 7.1, and is part of the aggregate in Figure 7.
Authors
Madalena Barata da Rocha
Research Assistant
Marie-Sophie Lappe
Research Analyst
Catarina Martins
PhD Student, Stockholm School of Economics
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