Russia's total Exports in 2021 were valued at US$492.31 Billion, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. Russia's main export partners were: China, the Netherlands and Germany. The top three export commodities were: Mineral fuels, oils, distillation products; Commodities not specified according to kind and Pearls, precious stones, metals, coins. Total Imports were valued at US$293.50 Billion. In 2021, Russia had a trade surplus of US$198.82 Billion.

Exports in Russia decreased to 33060 USD Million in April from 34559 USD Million in March of 2025. This dataset provides - Russia Exports - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Key information about Russia Total Exports

• Russia Total Exports recorded 39.7 USD bn in Dec 2024, compared with 39.8 USD bn in the previous month
• Russia Total Exports data is updated monthly, available from Jan 1998 to Dec 2024, with an averaged value of 29.5 USD bn
• The data reached an all-time high of 57.2 USD bn in Dec 2021 and a record low of 4.4 USD bn in Jan 1999

• In the latest reports, Russia Total Exports dropped 0.2 % YoY in Dec 2024
• Total Imports recorded 27.6 USD bn in Dec 2024, which registered an increase of 5.8 % year on year
• Russia Trade Balance recorded a surplus of 12.0 USD bn in Dec 2024

In 2024, about ****** billion U.S. dollars worth of goods were exported from Russia. The export value decreased by around **** percent from the previous year.

Key information about Russia Total Exports to USA

• Russia Total Exports to USA recorded 968.400 USD mn in Jan 2022, compared with 1.659 USD bn in the previous Dec 2021
• Russia Total Exports to USA data is updated monthly, available from Mar 2004 to Jan 2022, with an averaged value of 888.900 USD mn
• The data reached an all-time high of 2.108 USD bn in Jul 2021 and a record low of 408.500 USD mn in Apr 2004

Minerals products were the major export commodity group from Russia. Their export value amounted to ***** billion U.S. dollars in 2024. Metals and articles thereof followed, with goods worth **** billion U.S. dollars exported from Russia in 2024.

United States Exports to Russia was US$526.07 Million during 2024, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. United States Exports to Russia - data, historical chart and statistics - was last updated on July of 2025.

Russia's leading five export partners in 2023 were China, India, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Brazil. The value of total exports from Russia to its major trade partner — China — exceeded 128 billion U.S. dollars. Trade between Russia and China China was not only the leading export destination of Russian commodities, but also the major import partner of the country. Prior to 2018, the value of Russian imports from China prevailed the Russian exports’ worth to the country. It was in 2018 when for the first time, the trade balance of Russia with China turned positive and amounted to about 3.8 billion U.S. dollars. Russia's primary export goods, mineral and energy products, were also the most imported commodities by China from the country. Russian trade with Europe Trade flows between Russia and the EU have been in decline over the past years. In 2023, the EU export value to Russia exceeded 38 billion U.S. dollars — roughly 12 billion U.S. dollars below the EU imports’ worth from Russia in that year. Germany was the major importer of Russian goods in the region.

Mineral products were the leading export commodity of Russia in January 2024, having represented over ** percent of the total export trade revenue. Metals and articles thereof had the second-largest share of exports, at approximately ** percent.

In 2021, mineral fuels were the most exported commodities from Russia to the United States with roughly nine billion U.S. dollars in exports of named product category. Precious and semi-precious stones and metals listed in second place by export value over the period under consideration. Russia also exported over 1.2 billion U.S. dollar worth of iron and steel to the U.S. in 2021.

Transportation equipment was the main export commodity of the U.S. to Russia in the first 11 months of 2024, at roughly 2.5 billion U.S. dollars. Furthermore, the value of telecommunications equipment shipped from the U.S. to Russia were close to one billion U.S. dollars. The U.S. trade sanctions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine have led to a decline in exports of various commodities, such as equipment and machinery.

Between 2022 and 2023, the share of exports of goods and services in the total GDP of Russia decreased, measuring at around 23.1 percent in the latest year under consideration. Over the period from 2010, Russian exports had the highest share of GDP in 2018 at nearly 31 percent, while the lowest value was recorded in 2023.

Russia exported ***** million barrels of oil per day in 2024, up from approximately *** million barrels daily recorded in the previous year. Over the past decade, the highest oil export volume from Russia was recorded in 2017 at almost **** million barrels daily.

Key information about Russia Total Exports to China

• Russia Total Exports to China recorded 5.805 USD bn in Jan 2022, compared with 6.394 USD bn in the previous month
• Russia Total Exports to China data is updated monthly, available from Mar 2004 to Jan 2022, with an averaged value of 2.565 USD bn
• The data reached an all-time high of 6.643 USD bn in Nov 2021 and a record low of 634.500 USD mn in Jan 2005

Russia was forecast to export 58.8 million metric tons of cereals in the crop year 2024/25. That was roughly six million metric tons fewer than the volume of Russia's cereal exports recorded in the previous period. What cereals does Russia export? Wheat is the main cereal exported from Russia. The country was predicted to trade over 48 million metric tons of wheat to other countries in 2032, being the largest exporter of that commodity worldwide. Among other cereals, which are grasses cultivated for edible components of their grains, Russia exported barley, rye, corn, and rice. COVID-19 restrictions on cereal exports in Russia Limits to exports of certain foods from Russia as a food security measure during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic were imposed by the country on its own as well as within the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), together with Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. The EAEU restrictions included cereals like rye, rice, and millet. The Russian government introduced an export quota of seven million metric tons of wheat, rye, barley, and corn between April 1 and June 30, 2020, with an exception to exports to the EAEU.

Key information about Russia Natural Gas: Exports

• Russia Natural Gas: Exports was reported at 175,745.100 Cub m mn in Dec 2023
• This records an increase from the previous number of 169,940.000 Cub m mn for Dec 2022
• Russia Natural Gas: Exports data is updated yearly, averaging 92,358.238 Cub m mn from Dec 1960 to 2023, with 64 observations
• The data reached an all-time high of 258,240.000 Cub m mn in 2019 and a record low of 212.440 Cub m mn in 1960
• Russia Natural Gas: Exports data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
• The data is categorized under World Trend Plus’s Association: Energy Sector – Table RB.OPEC.NG: Natural Gas Exports

This graph shows the growth in the U.S. import volume of trade goods from Russia from 1992 to 2023. In 2023, U.S. imports from Russia amounted to approximately 4.57 billion U.S. dollars. RussiaRussia's foreign trade balance of goods generated a surplus of about 187 billion U.S. dollars, with more resulting from exports than imports in 2014. Russia exported trade goods valued about 418.8 billion U.S. dollars in 2019. In a global ranking of national exports, Russia was sixteenth. Leading exporters like China, the United States, and Germany are exporting goods worth between 1.5 and 2.5 trillion U.S. dollars. The placement of Russia’s export ranking is linear with its placement on the ranking of the biggest economies in the world. Russia had the eleventh largest GDP worldwide with about 1.6 trillion U.S. dollars in 2019. Russia's most important export countries are mostly its direct neighbors, like China, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, and Kazakhstan. About 35 percent of all exports go to neighboring countries. China is the most important country within the aforementioned nations, which takes about 8 percent of Russia's exported goods. The United States are not among the top ten. The nation sits in twelfth place of Russia's export destinations, with about three percent. The products exported from Russia are unsurprisingly mainly mineral products and metals, with crude and refined petroleum making up for 54 percent of all exports. The main export product apart from resources is wheat. Exported wheat from Russia was valued at about 6.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2012. Russia is one of the principal wheat exporters. Although the development of Russia's exports has been somewhat positive in recent years, the political crisis with the Ukraine, resulting in economic sanctions applied by important trade countries like Germany, the EU, the United States and many others, might have dampened foreign trade altogether. The result was a negative growth in exports of about five percent in 2014.

In 2021, Russia exported around 55.5 billion U.S. dollars' worth of natural gas to other countries worldwide. The export value more than doubled compared to the previous year. The highest natural gas export value over the observed period was recorded at 69.11 billion U.S. dollars in 2008. Gazprom's monopoly in Russian gas export Gazprom is a Russian energy corporation established in 1989 and co-owned by the government. The company has the monopoly on the country's gas export market through a clause in the Federal Tax Code, thus limiting access of domestic competitors, such as Rosneft and Novatek, to international markets. The leading gas company in Russia, Gazprom is also the global leader in gas production by output, measured at nearly 40 billion cubic feet daily in 2020. Besides exploration and production, the company is engaged in marketing, transportation, distribution, and other supply chain components. In 2019, Gazprom accounted for nearly 11 percent of the world's natural gas output. The company is an example of a national champion, as the corporation advances Russia's interests and accounts for over five percent of the country's GDP. Gas exports from Russia to China Russian gas exports to non-CIS countries, including China, saw a decrease in 2019 and 2020. In May 2014, Russia signed a 400 billion U.S. dollars contract with China, the biggest natural gas deal since the collapse of the USSR. Under the contract, Gazprom was to annually supply 38 billion cubic meters of natural gas for over 30 years at a cost of 350 U.S. dollars per thousand cubic meters. In 2019, Gazprom commenced the first pipeline gas supplies to China via the pipeline Power of Siberia. In February 2022, Gazprom and Chinese CNPC agreed on a 30-year gas supply deal, increasing supplies by 10 billion cubic meters per year.

China has been the leading export destination of fossil fuels from Russia since the start of the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Since that date, Russia has exported fossil fuels, such as oil, natural gas, and coal, worth around *** billion euros to China as of January 27, 2025. India was the second-leading recipient country, with a total fossil fuel export value of approximately ***** billion euros.

China Exports to Russia was US$115.28 Billion during 2024, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. China Exports to Russia - data, historical chart and statistics - was last updated on June of 2025.