Features of the Non-Tariff Regulation of Foreign Economic Activity of Ukraine and the CIS in Conditions of Destabilization of Socioeconomic Systems

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to define the peculiarities of the non-tariff regulation of foreign economic activity of both Ukraine and the CIS in the conditions of destabilization of socioeconomic systems. As a result of the carried out research, the trends in trade volumes in the world market are analyzed; the structure of the non-tariff methods of its regulation in the CIS countries and in Ukraine is studied; a structural and dynamic analysis of the use of non-tariff methods of regulation of foreign economic activity by the CIS countries was carried out, taking into account the terms of participation in the WTO. The analysis made it possible to state a negative trend of a significant excess of imports over the exports of goods to all CIS countries that are members of the WTO, and a permanent increase in the number of non-tariff measures to protect the interests of domestic producers. It is identified that among the non-tariff measures for regulating foreign economic activity, technical barriers were most applied; the secondary position among the non-tariff measures for regulation of foreign economic activity are sanitary and phytosanitary measures, and the smallest share falls on the anti-dumping measures of non-tariff measures for regulating foreign economic activity. This trend is due to the simultaneous action of multi-vector levers, some part of which, as the analysis shows, arise and act chaotically: global economic depression associated with the COVID-19 pandemic; simultaneous use of both tariff and non-tariff methods of regulation; related economic, political and social goals of the non-tariff methods of regulation. Prospects for further research in this direction are the use of the theory of «Chaos and Order» to determine the forces of influence on the functioning of world trade during the development of effective instruments for ensuring the protection of the rights and interests of Ukraine and especially its subjects of foreign economic activity in the trade and economic sphere, which are oriented towards increasing the international competitiveness of the national economy.

Keywords

• non-tariff methods
• foreign economic activity
• imports