Russia's trade balance surplus decreases 8.2% in 2025 to $139.3 bln - Federal Customs Service
MOSCOW. Feb 10 (Interfax) - Russia's positive foreign trade surplus decreased 8.2% year-on-year in 2025 and amounted to $139.3 billion.
According to data on exports and imports from the Federal Customs Service (FCS) published on Tuesday, exports of goods from Russia fell 3.7% YoY in 2025 to $418.3 billion and imports decreased 1.4% to $279.0 billion.
According to FTS data, the foreign trade surplus equaled $151.7 billion in 2024, including exports of $434.5 billion and imports of $282.8 billion.
Russia's foreign trade turnover amounted to $697.3 billion in 2025, down 2.8% compared to the figure for 2024 ($717.3 billion).
Russia's main trading partners in 2025 were Asian countries. Their share in total trade turnover was 73.4% compared to 72.6% in 2024, while trade turnover with them decreased 1.6% in 2025. European countries accounted for 18.6% of all trade turnover (19.7% in 2024), and trade turnover with them decreased 8.6% in 2025.
The share of American countries in Russia's total trade turnover in 2025 increased to 4.1% (from 3.7% in 2024); trade turnover grew 6.3%. The share of African countries remained unchanged at 3.9% (3.9% in 2024), while trade turnover decreased 2.4%.
Russian exports of goods to Europe amounted to $57.4 billion in 2025, down 16.5%, exports to Asia were at $326.0 billion, down 1.0%, exports to Africa totaled $22.7 billion (-6.5%) and to America they stood at $12.1 billion (+1.4%).
Russian imports from Europe in 2025 amounted to $72.3 billion (-1.1%), imports from Asia stood at $185.9 billion (-2.7%), imports from Africa were $4.4 billion (+26.1%) and imports from America totaled $16.3 billion (+10.3%).
As is traditional, mineral products formed the basis of Russian exports in 2025. Their share in the commodity structure of exports amounted to 53.9% (60.9% in 2024).
In the commodity structure of imports in 2025, the largest share fell on machinery, equipment and other goods, and amounted to 48.6% (52.0% in 2024).
Russian exports of mineral products amounted to $225.3 billion in 2025, down 14.8%; exports of metals and articles thereof stood at $74.7 billion (+17.4%); exports of food products and agricultural raw materials were $40.9 billion (-4.1%); exports of chemical industry products totaled $33.6 billion (+21.6%); exports of machinery, equipment, vehicles and other goods were $29.6 billion (+26.6%) and exports of wood and pulp and paper articles amounted to $10.6 billion (+4.9%).
Imports of machinery, equipment, vehicles and other goods into Russia in 2025 amounted to $135.6 billion (-7.7%); chemical industry product imports totaled $55.5 billion (+3.8%); imports of food products and agricultural raw materials stood at $43.4 billion (+15.0%); imports of textiles, textile articles and footwear were $18.3 billion (+1.1%) and imports of metals and articles thereof totaled $17.7 billion (-1.3%).
