OMMODITY MARKETS OF THE CIS AND EAEU AND THEIR IMPACT ON FOOD SECURITY IN RUSSIA

Abstract

In the article, the author analyses historical and political factors, including the role of the country’s leaders and the legal basis for the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in the post-Soviet space and, later in time, the formation of an integration association of a different format - the EAEU. The author also considers the differences in the organisational and legal architecture of building associations, their international legal status, the competence of governing bodies, the ways of development of each of them, and the competitive opportunities between them. In addition, in the article, the author compares the customs legislation of the CIS and the EAEU in terms of regulating trade relations of a duty-preferential nature between their member states based on the corresponding free trade regimes in the CIS and the EAEU. Moreover, the author evaluates the statistical and calculated indicators (value and physical) of the results of mutual trade in food and agricultural products within the commodity markets operating in the CIS and the EAEU, their correlation with similar indicators of international trade of the CIS countries and the EAEU with third countries, the impact and significance mutual trade of the CIS countries and the EAEU with the Russian Federation on the food security of Russia.