OREANDA-NEWS  The Federal Customs Service has partially resumed the publication of foreign trade customs statistics. From the above data it follows that the turnover of Russia's foreign trade in 2022 grew by 8.1% year-on-year and reached $850.5 billion.

The trade surplus reached $332 billion, export volumes increased by 19.9% to $591.5 billion, imports decreased by 11.7% to $259.1 billion.

The FCS provides data on the results of trade in 2022 for 71 types of goods. It follows from the data that over the year Russia increased the export of mineral fuels, oil and products of their distillation, bituminous substances by 42.8% - up to $383.7 billion.

Exports of food products and agricultural raw materials in monetary terms increased by 14.8%, supplies of fertilizers - by 54.3% - to $19.295 billion. Imports of fertilizers increased 2.1 times - to $351.6 million.

In April 2022, the Russian Federal Customs Service suspended the publication of data on imports and exports in order to avoid "incorrect estimates and speculation."