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During the last years the external trade of African states, including less developed countries, with both their traditional European partners and new, first of all, Asian ones has changed. Along with geographic distribution shifts, the commodity structure of African exports and imports has changed too. Bilateral Russian-African trade in 2016 was more active, including range of goods diversification.
Keywords:
Africa, external trade, Russia–Africa trade, geographic distribution, commodity structure of export and import
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