Government regulations of foreign economic activity in Ukraine: current situation and ways for improvement

Abstract

In the article it’s made an evaluation of current situation of government regulation of foreign economic activity in Ukraine. It’s defined that integration processes in the world became one of the most important factor, which identifies development of world economy. Practical including country into world trade is due to economic cooperation, the key role played by foreign economic activity. In Ukraine foreign economic activity is based on combining of economics (custom-tariff) and administrative (non-tariff) methods of regulations of foreign economic activity. It’s found out that Ukrainian agriculture are developed lower that in developed countries in the world and in the EU. Main problems lie in the lack of competitiveness of products and their non-compliance with international standards of quality and safety, dominating the structure of exports of products with a low level of processing. It is analyzed dynamics of foreign economic trade in agriculture, defined that the biggest share in agricultural export structure is plant products, main export categories are sunflower oil, corn, barley, soybean, honey, wheat and rye. In the export structure of animal products, main share belongs to poultry products. It is explained main spheres and ways for improvement of government regulations of foreign economic activity in agriculture.