Current and most important trends in foreign trade relations between the European Union (EU) and the Russian Federation (RF) as long-standing and traditional partners in modern international trade are considered. The authors focus on identifying the role of energy carriers, in particular, oil in mutual commodity exchange of the EU and RF in the context of the latest developments in the sphere of global and regional trade against the background of turbulence in the world economy and international commodity exchange that grew in the period 2014-2018. Recent changes in the position of the Russian Federation as one of the most important foreign trade counterparties of the EU are shown. At the same time, a number of offi cial and calculated data is introduced into the domestic scientifi c circulation for the fi rst time. In the course of this study, the authors used the methodology of comparative and statistical analysis.
Keywords: international trade, foreign trade, merchandise export / import, sanctions, the European Union (the EU), Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, Russian Federation, China, the USA.
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