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: 01 July 2025
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.
- Complete update for all countries as well as all aggregates up to April 2025. For Switzerland, Turkey, Japan, South Korea, China, Brazil and Norway, May 2025 data is available.
- EU-27 imports of "Liquefied propane and butane" (SITC 342) and "Other gaseous hydrocarbons" (SITC 344) have not been updated since December 2024 for any country. Since the latest available value for the import from Russia in December 2024 was very low at EUR 0.19 billion, we assume zero for the months with missing data from January 2025. These components are shown in Figure 7.1, and is part of the aggregate in Figure 7.