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Chinese exporters charge Russia more for war supplies: Price increases show that western restrictions are limiting Moscow’s capabilities, Bank of Finland research finds (www.ft.com)
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Here is the original report by the Bank of Finland.

Chinese exporters have been raising prices for Russian military-industrial buyers, exploiting the Kremlin’s reliance on their supplies as western sanctions restrict imports, new research has revealed.

Prices of export-controlled products shipped from China to Russia rose 87 per cent between 2021 and 2024 on average, according to a new paper from the Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (Bofit). The price of similar goods shipped elsewhere rose only 9 per cent.

The research shows that while Russia has been able to use Chinese suppliers to get around western restrictions on the purchase of products that have potential military uses, the wave of sanctions imposed in the wake of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has pushed up costs for the Kremlin.

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The authors, Iikka Korhonen and Heli Simola, focused on a major pinch point: the trade in goods listed as “machinery and mechanical appliances”, a category that includes a large number of items identified as being of importance to the war-industry push.

They concluded sanctions have “limited Russia’s technological capabilities by making the importing of critical goods more expensive”.

In some cases, they found that increases in the value of export-controlled imports from China to Russia had been driven entirely by price rises rather than an increase in trade flows. By 2024, Russia’s imports of Chinese ball bearings had surged 76 per cent since 2021 in dollar terms. But the volume of exports dropped 13 per cent over that time.

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Relief from sanctions remains a critical goal of the Kremlin. In the original 28-point peace plan devised by the US and Russia and presented last week to Ukraine, the document states “the lifting of sanctions will be discussed and agreed upon in stages and on a case-by-case basis”.

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[–] einkorn@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago

Supply and demand at work.

Would be better if there was no supply at all but, oh well, we have to start somewhere.