Fostering the Effectiveness of TCL

What fosters the effectiveness of Transnational Commodity Law (TCL) is to render the sustainable use principle as effective as possible. For that purpose, we shall first turn to some reflections on how the normative potential of sustainable development (SD) as a legal concept can be unfolded (Sect. 5.1). Secondly, we will turn to International Commodity Agreements (ICAs) as potential instruments codifying what sustainable commodity use requires (Sect. 5.2).

International trade: key trends for the first 20 years of the XXI century (2001—2020)

The most important changes in the dynamics of international commodity turnover of the first two decades of the XXI century are considered. For the first time the shifts in the geographical structure of global exports and imports of commodity products are analyzed. A conclusion is made about the repeated regrouping of forces among the 25 largest exporting and importing countries, still controlling approximately four fifths of the total value of the global commodity turnover. It shows the main trends in foreign trade activities of the leading subjects of international commodity trade, including the Russian Federation. The methodology of comparative and statistical analysis on the basis of the latest statistical materials, a number of official and estimated author’s data, introduced in the Russian scientific turnover for the first time, is used.