IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC AGREEMENTS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE FOR REGION

The article substantiates the impact of the international economic agreements on the development of regional international trade. The object of the study is regional foreign trade, the subject is the role of international agreements and negotiations in its development. The study purpose is to develop a scientific approach to assessment of impact of international agreements on the development of the region's foreign economic relations. The hypothesis substantiates the dependence of successful development of foreign trade on intensity of international agreements. The methodology is proven on example of Sverdlovsk Region and its contacts with basic trade partners. The main research method includes finding a correlation between intensity of international agreements with the volume and structure of foreign trade. The results of the study are important for all agents of foreign trade activities: firms, authorities, structures supporting the foreign economic activity. Taking into account the foreign trade factor allows increasing the efficiency of foreign economic contacts and helps achieving the higher results by entering the foreign markets. A more active involvement of the factor of international contacts furthers increasing of the foreign trade turnover, and export, and also diversification their structure, what allows to solve the most important problems of region in terms of globalization.