'Research Centre of Industrial Problems of Development of NAS of Ukraine'
Abstract
Ukraine's foreign trade is one of the most important ways to increase the
State budget. Strategic goal in the development of economy of Ukraine is to
achieve a presentable place in the international division of labor, namely in
the field of foreign trade. The European Union is the strongest global economic
organization, the largest and the best regional market of the world.
The article is aimed to determine status of the foreign trade activities in
Ukraine, its positive and negative traits, and areas for their improvement. It
is concluded that developing relations with the EU in the long term, given the
geopolitical, geoeconomic and historic European status of Ukraine, should
remain one of the priorities of our foreign economic policy. A basic milestone
in the way of gaining the full membership in the EU should be creation of
economic and legal preconditions for the commencement of negotiations on
a free trade zone between Ukraine and the EU. Prospect for further research
in this direction is accomplishing an analysis of development of the foreign
economic relations of Ukraine with the EU and of ensuring the economic integration
of Ukraine into the European economic space