Russia’s Foreign Trade in 2019

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