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Nuclear and space: France and Russia

First country

Second country

In 2025, France sold USD 34.8 million of nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft to Russia and bought USD 221 million from it.

Constraints

  • BothFlows are one-sided: in 2025, Russia sold USD 221 million of nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft, against USD 34.8 million the other way.
  • BothTwo-way trade in nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft is 42 percent below its 2023 peak of USD 441 million.

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Last updated on 26 September 2026

The numbers

France's exports to Russia: nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft

USD million · 2019 to 2025, calendar years, as reported by France

2019: 241.7Low 0.7 / High 241.72025: 34.8

2019241.7
202021.8
202124.4
20220.7
20231.9
202455.4
202534.8

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Data retrieved 26 September 2026

France's imports from Russia: nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft

USD million · 2019 to 2025, calendar years, as reported by France

2019: 37.5Low 1.3 / High 439.52025: 221.1

201937.5
20201.3
2021110.1
2022381
2023439.5
202462
2025221.1

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Data retrieved 26 September 2026

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