Structural peculiarities of Ukraine's foreign economic activities

The article presents an analysis of structural peculiarities of Ukraine's foreign economic activities, on which basis the author reveals factors which negatively affect their state under the conditions of increasingly transnational character of the world economy. The author defines the reasons of the loss of the export potential, which are related to this country's uncertain political course in the sphere of foreign economic activities and the imperfect mechanisms of state management as to the use of customs and tax regulators. It is justified that, under the conditions of strict tariff regulation and high rates of import duties related to the obligations taken by Ukraine with the WTO accession, the prospective guidelines for the improvement of tax regulation remain domestic taxation of the subject of foreign economic activities and non-tariff regulation, and strengthening control over the use of anti-damping, compensatory or special measures and special duties.