International commodity trade in 2001-2015: trends and failures in 2015

The article contains research of the shifts in dynamics and geographical structure of the international commodity trade at the beginning of the 21st century. The article analyzes the latest trends in foreign trade that emerged after falling of the world prices on all main commodity groups, introduction of the anti-Russian sanctions from a number of Western countries and retaliatory measures of the Russian Federation. The author has generalized the official statistics and provided settlement data for 2001-2015, that allowed to formulate the main conclusions.