The article deals with the peculiarities of the conclusion of international goods purchase and sale contracts in current conditions of state development. It is determined that, despite the great need for a documents of this kind in Ukraine, there is still no specific legislative act regulating the issues of obligatory conditions of international purchase and sale contract. On the basis of the analysis of the foreign economic activity volume with the countries of the European Union, the objective necessity for the development of contractual relations among business entities from different countries and their submission to the legal norms and requirements of international and national legislation is proved. The issues of determining the essence of the international goods purchase and sale, its differences from other contractual structures are highlighted. The main sources of legal regulation of cotracts on the international purchase and sale of goods were investigated, which became the basis for the analysis of the essential terms of the international purchase and sale cotract, the scope of use of this cotract, as well as the procedure for its conclusion. Based on the analysis of the stages of concluding international purchase and sale contracts, measures have been developed on the feasibility of regulating at the level of the Civil Code of Ukraine of the provisions related to establishing the requirements for the form of the contract and the evidence to which the parties can refer as confirmation of the fact of its conclusion. In further scientific research it is necessary to concentrate attention on the consideration of the role of international purchase and sale of goods contracts and commercial activity in forming the modern concept of international commercial arbitration.