Current State and Main Trends of Foreign Trade Development in Siberian Federal District

Abstract

The article considers the current specificity of foreign trade ties of the Siberian Federal District. It presents a brief analysis of dynamics for the volumes and commodity structure of export-import operations of the Siberian Federal District based on an analysis of the statistical data of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation during the period of 2015-2018. In currents terms and in view of forecasting of the world economy development, of special significance for the Siberian Federal District is the search for directions and tools of modernizing the economy and transition to the innovative development. The foreign trade can be a prospective direction of socio-economic development of the Siberian Federal District. At the present time, the Siberian Federal District is export-oriented, but in the commodity structure of the export there prevail raw mineral groups of commodities, which decrease the positive effect from the export. Developing processing industries and machine-building oriented at increasing the depth of processing the raw resources and the finished goods export can be the basis of the sustainable development of Siberia.