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: 3 July 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 May 2026. Latest available observations: April 2026 for the European Union, Kazakhstan, India, the United Kingdom and the United States; May 2026 for China, Japan, Norway, South Korea, Switzerland, Turkey and Brazil. Consequently, data for the aggregate of the 38 countries is available only up to February 2026.
EU-27 imports of "Liquefied propane and butane" (SITC 342) have not been reported since months February 2025. Since the latest available value for imports 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
Anna Bahí
Research Assistant
Madalena Barata da Rocha
Research Analyst
Marie-Sophie Lappe
Former Research Analyst, Bruegel
Catarina Martins
PhD Student, Stockholm School of Economics
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