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…The current Russia-Ukraine conflict continues to reshape geopolitical relations and international trade and to give context to the situation, we’ve created this graphic using IMF and UN Comtrade data to showcase Ukraine’s largest trading partners and goods traded in 2020.
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International trade was equal to 65% of Ukraine’s GDP in 2020, totaling $102.9 billion of goods exchanged with countries around the world but that was down 33% from its peak back in 2012 and will now be irreversibly disrupted as a result of Russia’s full-scale invasion on February 24th, 2022.
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