Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (Mar 2023)

Impact of economic sanctions on net commodity-producing and net commodity-consuming countries

  • Sergio R Vale,
  • Eduardo Viola

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7329202300101
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 66, no. 1

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Abstract The war in Ukraine has had a marked economic impact. However, since Russia is a net producer of important commodities, the impact of sanctions on its economy was less than expected. But what would happen if there was a war involving a country that was a net importer of commodities? In the case of a possible China-US conflict over Taiwan, the impact on the world economy would be different, with a deeper recession around the world, but the impact on the Brazilian economy would still be positive on account of the possibility that would remain of agricultural exports to China.

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