Trade Policy Monitoring

The purpose of this initiative is to collect information on changes in trade policy towards export and imports of essential goods (including food and fertilizers), and other key inputs that are exported by Russia and Ukraine (fuels and raw materials), to document the cumulative resort to trade policies since the beginning of the 2022. Information on trade policy changes is collected and collated by The Global Trade Alert and the World Bank on a monthly basis. Figures summarizing some of the features of the cumulative policy response are prepared as well. Current multilateral trade rules allow governments to implement trade restrictions under certain conditions. This monitoring exercise does not take a position on the consistency of a jurisdiction’s trade restrictions with World Trade Organization rules or with relevant regional trade agreement obligations.