EXPORT ACTIVITY OF MASHINE-BUILDING ENTERPRISES WITHIN TRANSFORMATION OF UKRAINIAN FOREIGN TRADE

Abstract

Urgency of the research. Transformational processes in Ukrainian economy and its integration to European and world economic areas set new challenges to domestic machine building. Target setting. In modern conditions, national machine building suffers from huge economic crisis and loses its competitive fight in domestic and, what is sufficiently important for the economy of Ukraine, in foreign markets. Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. The operation of Ukrainian machine building enterprises, including that on the international markets, has been studied by:Yu. M. Bartyshevska, T. A. Kalna, N. V. Balabanoova, N. V. Ravlyk et al. Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. The situation in international markets of machine building products as well as in the national economy is changing dynamically, causing new problems and challenges for Ukrainian machine building enterprises. It requires more profound research of problematics and perspectives of export activities of the enterprises. The research objective. The goal of the article is to distinguish problems and perspectives of export activity of domestic machine building enterprises, based on the estimation of Ukrainian machine building dynamics and its foreign economic activity, taking into consideration the transformation of country’s foreign development vector. The statement of basic materials. The article deals with the study of dynamics of machine building development in 2006 – 2016 stressing foreign economic (export) activity. Problems of export activity of machine building enterprises in Ukraine have been outlined, among them: the level of competitiveness, low quality of products, problems with development and production of innovative goods, deficit of investment resources. The special attention is given to perspectives of such an activity for the area under consideration. Conclusions. The research conducted has allowed to formulate certain problems of export activity and to define perspectives of foreign economic activity of national machine building enterprises, occured in terms of foreign economic transformation of the country.