Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Volovik Nadezhda
Author-Name-First: Nadezhda
Author-Name-Last: Volovik
Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy
Author-Name: Knobel Alexander
Author-Name-First: Alexander
Author-Name-Last: Knobel
Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy
Title: Russia’s foreign trade in 2019
Abstract: 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 tariffs and rapid changes in the trade policy led to the decline of business confidence and, consequently, restrained investment growth in most regions. Sluggish demand affected global prices of primary products, particularly, crude oil and commercial metals
Classification-JEL: F10, F13, F19
Keywords: Russian economy, foreign trade, terms of trade, regional pattern
Creation-Date: 2020
Revision-Date: 2020
Length: 19 pages
File-URL: https://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/ppaper/ppaper-2020-1045.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Function: Revised Version, 2020
Handle: RePEc:gai:ppaper:ppaper-2020-1045