Russia reduced agricultural product exports by almost 13% over 8 months.

For January-August of the current year, Russia reduced its exports of food products and agricultural raw materials (excluding textiles) by 12.7 percent in monetary terms, down to $23.8 billion. This is reported by pole.rf, citing data from the Federal Customs Service (FCS). In exact figures, this is $3.4 billion less than in the same period last year. Data is provided only for mineral products among all types of products. Their export decreased by 15.5% to $146.9 billion. Meanwhile, the import of agricultural products, on the contrary, increased by 14% — from $24.3 billion to $27.7 billion. Data is also presented on some non-food items, including those not related to agriculture. Their export, on the contrary, increased. In particular, the figure for metals and ...