Experience shows that although certain notions like the norms and rules established by the World Trade Organization (WTO) are still being perceived as something abstract and metaphorical by many participants of foreign economic activity, these norms and rules have already been actively used in...

In mid-April 2015, the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization (WTO) released its annual World Trade Report 2014, which reviews the international trade over the past year and its development prospects for the current year. The document offers preliminary statistics on global trade in...

In 2014, export of goods from Russia decreased for the first time in five years. Reduction of the export in monetary terms is mainly justified by a drop of oil prices, though it is necessary to take into account other system problems which have accumulated in the Russian export sector in the...

According to the latest projections released by the WTO, this year the global trade growth rate is going to decrease to 4.4% from its previous level of 4.7% in 2017. In its annual report, the WTO Secretariat warns that the threats voiced by the USA that it may impose duties on imports of goods...

Со второй половины прошедшего десятилетия в экономике России возникло относительно новое явление – массированный вывоз прямых инвестиций (сопоставимый с...

Over recent years Russia has actually become a monoculture exporter: three types of energy resources (crude oil, oil products and natural gas) ensure about 60% of the overall export volume. In the circumstances of such high export concentration over a small group of commodities, Russia's room...

As demonstrated by preliminary data released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), in 2012, global foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows declined by 18.3% - to as low as $ 1.3 trillion, which is practically the same as the level recorded over the crisis period....

Со второй половины прошедшего десятилетия в экономике России воз-никло относительно новое явление – массированный вывоз прямых инвестиций (сопоставимый с...

Despite uncertainty in the global economy and domestic problems of the Russian economy, the export of direct investments from Russia keeps growing. Generally, a large-scale withdrawal of the enterprise capital from the country has a contradictory – both positive and negative – effect on...