The Tendencies in Ukraine’s Exports Development in the Context of European Integration

Abstract

The article is aimed at assessing the tendencies of development of Ukraine’s exports in the context of European Integration. A comparative analysis of the participation rate as to the international division of labor, the export efficiency coefficient of Ukraine and its main trading partners was carried out on the basis of both national and foreign statistics. Indicators for the development of exports of goods and services to the EU Member States were analyzed. On the basis of the statistics of national accounts, export orientation and import dependence of the selected economic activities were calculated. A comparison has been made between the amount of tariff quotas granted to Ukraine for the export of individual trade items under the terms of the Association Agreement with the physical volumes of similar goods exported to the EU. It has been substantiated that for Ukraine, in the face of destabilization of the global trade regulators, an effective export-promotion is a mechanism for enhancing international competitiveness and thus for modernizing the national development strategy. Prospects for further research in this direction are determining the factors that have the greatest impact on the level of export orientation of the types of economic activities.

Keywords

• exports
• export-promotion
• European Union
• export orientation
• import dependence
• competitiveness