Sphere Of Trade Research Articles

Features of consumer behavior of Russian tourists in duty-free shops

In the modern world, a new category of travelers (global shoppers) has appeared. They are people who spend their time for shopping on abroad trips. The article considers the problem of understanding the consumer behavior of Russian tourists (Russian global shoppers) in duty-free shops. The purpose of the study is to identify the features of consumer behavior, motives and habits of Russian tourists when shopping at duty free stores at airports. A pilot study was conducted by questionnaire survey at the airport. The results of the study showed that Russian tourists consider shopping (duty free) as part of their trip abroad. They are looking for a favorable price / quality ratio. Many of them do not plan their shopping in advance, but adhere to certain budget restrictions. The paper offers suggestions to improve customer satisfaction. The results of the study are useful for business persons and marketing managers in the international trade sphere.

Impact of COVID-19 in the Nigerian Commercial Community: A Roadmap for Agencies

The COVID-19 is having an unprecedented impact in the commercial and trade sphere globally. Businesses of all sizes are finding it difficult to operate efficiently and many struggle to meet contractual obligations. Agency is a ubiquitous concept in trade and commerce. The sudden implosion of commercial activities has invariably affected agency relationships. This publication analyses the key ripple effects of COVID-19 on agency relationships and offer legal options for mitigating its downside effects. In addition, this paper proffers blueprints for future agency-related agreements to prepare for unforeseen contingencies.

The Condition and Trends of Crimes Committed in Public Places

The success of prevention greatly depends on its proper support by research. In the present situation with crime counteraction, it is impossible to achieve substantial results without using the advances of research. Criminological research of different types of crimes makes it possible to focus on their specific features. The authors of the article analyze the current situation with crimes committed in public places and their trends. It is noted that a third of all crimes in official statistics was committed in public places; their structure is dominated by theft, plunder and illegal drug trade. The general reduction of the level of crime in public places, characteristic for 2016, was accompanied by a growth in the number of crimes in the sphere of illegal trade in arms, drugs, and the number of thefts. The authors pay special attention to street crimes (summarize criminological approaches to the concept of «street crime», show its dynamics, structure, consequences, influence on the situation with public order and public safety, socio-psychological state of the society and the assessment of the work of the police). The results of researching crimes in public places at the regional level are presented. Using the analysis of statistical data from State Information and Analytical Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, the authors state that the Central Federal District is one of the most problematic from the criminal viewpoint in the country. A high coefficient of crimes in public places is observed in the Siberian, Far East, Ural Federal Districts. Key modern trends of crimes in public places include: a dominant share of crimes against property; unlawful use of modern information and communication technologies for criminal purposes; links with transnational organized crime; a steady trend for a younger age of persons who commit crimes of this type. The results of the conducted research make it possible to determine new criminal challenges, identify priorities of preventive work, use and develop measures aimed at improving the counteraction not only to crimes in public places, but to crimes in general.

Anti-Russian Sanctions: Damage to the Countries that Declared Them

Many states, pursuing their own political, economic, financial and ideological goals, have used all sorts of non-military methods and means of coercion of other states, international unions and organisations, and economic entities to perform actions that are desirable for states declared such sanctions. Such methods and means include various restrictions, prohibitions, blockades and unjustified tariffs. When asked about the consequences of sanctions imposed on someone, they usually refer to their negative impact on those to whom they are applied. However, the undesirable consequences of sanctions are also felt by those who apply them, as well as by other members of the world community that are not involved in such measures. That is why the author of this paper tried to estimate the losses which bear the states that declared anti-Russian sanctions. It is also essential because such sanctioning countries usually adhere to the principle “don’t hurt yourself”. So, the measures they take should not cause damage to their initiators (state, companies, corporations, etc.), especially irreparable damage. The author presented in this paper some results of the assessment of sanctioning countries’ losses incurred as a result of the reduction of their exports to Russia and imports from the Russian Federation. As a statistical basis for the calculations, the author used the data of the World Trade Organization for 2012–2017. The author has shown that the primary damage from the implementation of anti-Russian sanctions in the sphere of foreign trade in 2014–2017 was incurred not by their initiators, but by the countries that joined them. First of all, this applies to those countries that have developed more significant foreign trade relations with the Russian Federation, that is, who is more dependent on the volume of Russian exports and imports.

REFLECTION OF LABOR MARKET INTERESTS AND EXPECTATIONS IN EDUCATIONAL ORDER FOR CONTEMPORARY SCHOOL

Purpose of the study: The main objective of the study was the analysis of key labor market request content for the secondary education system, the level of employers' expectations compliance and actual learning outcomes, the research of resources and partnership interaction limitations of all interesting subjects in the process of an educational order development.
 Methodology: The main method was the questionnaire survey of experts (individual entrepreneurs, the heads of industrial and structural divisions) of Moscow (N = 316). The results of the expert survey showed the interest of employers in close cooperation with school in order to reflect the interests of the labor market in the educational order adequately.
 Results: The most motivated group is a small business, the leaders of the lowest level in the sphere of trade and service, who directly interact with the school graduates in the process of their early start of labor activity. The experts noted the problems in the development of the social competencies among schoolchildren: excessive self-esteem, an excessive level of claims, low level of willingness to work in a team, the lack of such qualities as responsiveness and responsibility. The cooperation between school and employers is limited to traditional sponsorship practices. The interaction of employers and educational institutions is quite fragmentary, it depends on a variety of random factors (personal and situational motives), which does not ensure the stability and the effectiveness of social partnership.
 Applications of this study: This research can be used for the universities, teachers, and students.
 Novelty/Originality of this study: In this research, the model of Reflection of Labor Market Interests and Expectations in Educational Order for Contemporary School is presented in a comprehensive and complete manner.

BRICS+ as a Factor of Economic Growth and Investment Development

The subject of the research is the BRICS countries activities. The purpose of the work is to assess the initiatives for creating the intergovernmental cooperation format BRICS+ as a factor of economic development of member states, as well as to suggest ways of the interaction mechanism perfection in the fields of trade, investments, multilateral cooperation of development banks, creating international financial centers and payment systems and making use of national currencies in mutual settlements. It is concluded that it is necessary to form favorable conditions for cooperation within new regional associations with the leading role of Russia, India and China. The urgency of the research lies in the fact that the assessment of achievements and prospects of the countries in the spheres of finance, trade and investments presented in the research allows to draw a conclusion about a positive character of the initiative to create the intergovernmental cooperation format BRICS+ and about advisability to expand multilateral interactions through trade agreements with mutual settlements in national currencies of partner countries, through simplification of investment mechanisms and their respective financial provision, primarily in financing major infrastructural projects that have an integration effect. The authors argue for the importance to create a decentralized integration model of interaction for parties via cooperating of a bigger number of participants, which will enable developing countries to meet global challenges and to solve developmental problems effectively. The authors also emphasize that the creation of BRICS+ is a significant initiative that will contribute to fulfilling the tasks formulated in the President of the Russian Federation V. V. Putin Decree “About national goals and strategic objectives of the RF development for the period till 2024” and in his message to the Federal Assembly on 20.02.2019.

Современные подходы к лечению красного плоского лишая

Красный плоский лишай (КПЛ) - хроническое рецидивирующее воспалительное заболевание кожи. Несмотря на то, для лечения КПЛ назначается большое количество лекарственных препаратов, у части из них отсутствует четкая доказательная база, а часть лекарств может применяться не у всех пациентов из-за проблем с профилем безопасности. Цель этого исследования: проанализировать подходы к лечению больных КПЛ, чтобы помочь врачам выбрать оптимальный способ терапии таких пациентов. Обзор статей по лечению КПЛ проводился при помощи электронных баз данных Scopus, Web of Science, Medline, PubMed, elibrary.ru. Топические кортикостероиды и ингибиторы кальциневрина являются современными препаратами первой линии. В качестве других методов лечения используются системные и тоопические ретиноиды, метотерксат, циклоспорин, гидроксихлорохин, фототерапия и другие. К сожалению, отсутствуют крупные рандомизированные контролируемые исследования для подтверждения эффективности, безопасности и переносимости некоторых методов лечения КПЛ, и многие рекомендации основаны на исследованиях с небольшими размерами выборки, отсутствием стандартизированных показателей результатов, контролируемой продолжительности лечения. Следует отметить, что во всех случаях лечение больных КПЛ должно быть комплексным, индивидуальным. В то же время необходимо уделять внимание сопутствующим заболеваниям пациента, которые нередко осложняют течение кожного заболевания. Прогноз обычно благоприятный. Назначение лечения пациентам с КПЛ должно основываться на персонифицированном подходе к каждому пациенту в зависимости от степени тяжести, формы, локализации и клинической картины.

Evaluation of the Sanctions Impact on Sanctioning Countries’ Trade with Russia

The aim of this paper was to present some results of the study of the impact of the sanctions, imposed on the Russian Federation in 2014 and consistently expanded and deepened, not on Russia, but on those who use these sanctions — the countries that imposed the sanctions (the sanctioners). External trade, that is one of the objects of the sanctions, was chosen as the subject of the study. The author’s task was to estimate the role of the Russian Federation in the external trade of the countries, which use the sanctions against Russia, before and after the sanctions, and to evaluate the harm caused to these countries by their sanctions and by Russia’s counter-sanctions. To solve these problems, the author proposed a mathematical tool for the damage quantitative assessment. The World Trade Organization statistics for 2012–2017 formed a database for the study, and economic-mathematical and statistical methods were taken as research instruments. One may summarize the results of the study as follows. First, Russia plays an insignificant role in foreign trade of most countries that imposed sanctions against the Russian Federation. However, the damage from the sanctions and counter-sanctions for some of them turns out to be quite significant. Second, the negative impact of the sanctions on their initiators in the sphere of external trade is the stronger, the more important for the sanctioning country its trade relations with the Russian Federation are. Third, the burden of the sanctions was less heavy for their main initiator — the united States of America, than for their less economically strong partners that imposed the sanctions. The author’s main conclusion is that eventually the economic interests of some of these countries win up over the political goals that go against these interests, and the volume of the foreign trade, that dropped down after the sanctions were imposed on Russia, tends to recover. Russia, shifting from the overseas markets to the domestic one and changing the geographical structure of its international trade, does continue to develop. To present the results of the study to the Russian readers, the version of the article in Russian is submitted to the journal “The World of New Economy”. Its title is “Anti-Russian Sanctions: Damage to the Countries that Declared them”. The version gives the results of the analysis of the impact of sanctions on technology trade and the content of the study of foreign trade in goods, detailed in this paper.

Eurasian Economic Union: Achievement and Сhallenges of Integration

The question of Eurasian integration is of great interest to politicians and academics for many reasons. First, it is the only existing and developing integration association in the former Soviet Union. Second, this association is valid in the neighbourhood of the European Union. Thirdly, this association is close to the sphere of important trade and investment interests of China. And finally, it is important that the EAEU was formed after 2014 — the beginning of the “sanctions” period in the life of Russia and the world. Integration in the Eurasian space is a unique case when previously closely interconnected countries within the framework of the central planning system, having survived the collapse of the former economic reality and still being in a protracted transformation process, restore their economic ties in a new market environment. In the case of the CIS, reintegration has not developed for some political reasons, despite available economic conditions. In addition to the analysis of macroeconomic and institutional parameters of the countries, the article presents the results of the classification of the regions of four EAEU countries: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. To optimise the cross-country comparison, we simplified the classification by the peculiarities of the administrative division of other EAEU members.

ROLE FORENSIC TRADE ANALYSIS WHILE HEARING CONSUMER PROTECTION CASES

This article content is aimed at characterization of urgent problematic issues, which are connected with determining the place of forensic expertise in cases related to the protection of consumer rights and the development of ways of solving emerging problems. The article emphasizes that in accordance with the current legislation, consumers have the right to protect their rights to the necessary quality, safety of goods and services, as well as the right to compensation for losses caused by goods of inadequate quality, dangerous to life and health, etc. It is determined that the main control in the sphere of trade is exercised by the State Service for Product Safety and Consumer Protection, and it is established that the problems are the inability of this service to carry out an instant check on a consumer complaint of a particular point of sale.
 At the present stage, the problem of citizens' rights including rights in the sphere of consumption, is extremely urgent, because accession of Ukraine to the European Union requires the application of European standards of product quality. In developed country, the consumer is a major player in market relations, which is focused on the production and improvement of the quality of goods and services. The application of sanctions to sellers, manufacturers of poor-quality products does not always give the necessary effect, because usually an unscrupulous manufacturer (seller, executor) pays a fine and continues to provide poor quality services, to supply products that are dangerous to life and health.
 Important factor in improving the quality of products and services provided is the legal knowledge of consumers themselves in protecting their rights. Consumer rights have a prerogative over the rights of sellers and producers, since human life and health under the Constitution of Ukraine is a fundamental value of the state.
 The authors described the actions that the consumer should take to protect their violated rights, and emphasized that in cases where the consumer seeks to restore justice for this issue, he should ask an expert institution to perform a forensic trade research.

Психологічні особливості формування мотиваційної готовності до діяльності майбутніх фахівців торговельно-економічної сфери

Психологічні особливості формування мотиваційної готовності до діяльності майбутніх фахівців торговельно-економічної сфери

ІНСТИТУЦІЙНІ ПАРАМЕТРИ ЗОВНІШНЬОТОРГОВЕЛЬНИХ ВІДНОСИН УКРАЇНИ В ПЕРІОД НЕПУ

Стаття присвячена дослідженню інституційних умов і чинників розвитку зовнішньої торгівлі України у міжвоєнний період. Виявлено характерні риси механізму державного регулювання вітчизняної зовнішньоторговельної діяльності у період воєнного комунізму. Охарактеризовано рівень включення України до системи міжнародних торговельних зв’язків у період нової економічної політики (НЕП). Обґрунтовано нормативно-правове забезпечення та специфіку впровадження радянського механізму державної монополії зовнішньої торгівлі 20-х рр. ХХ ст. Проаналізовано ієрархічну структуру та функціональне скерування державних органів управління та реалізації зовнішньої торгівлі СРСР, зокрема, Народного комісаріату зовнішньої торгівлі. Розкрито роль змішаних акціонерних товариств та державних монополістичних об’єднань (трестів та синдикатів) в інтенсифікації та розширені зовнішньоторговельної діяльності України. Визначено особливості впровадження механізму комерційної концесії в СРСР як спроби залучення іноземного капіталу до сфери вітчизняної зовнішньої торгівлі. Акцентовано увагу на специфіці регулювання та організації зовнішньоторговельних відносин союзних республік, зокрема, України, в рамках єдиного інституційного механізму СРСР. Охарактеризовано систему методів та інструментів митно-тарифного регулювання радянським урядом вітчизняної зовнішньоторговельної діяльності. Проаналізовано особливості митних тарифів СРСР, прийнятих протягом 20-х рр. ХХ ст. Висвітлено рівень експортно-імпортного обкладання основних груп товарів. Виявлено специфікупрактики використання транзитного мита на території України. Визначено чинники, параметри та масштаби розвитку на українських кордонах контрабанди як тіньового сегменту вітчизняної експортно-імпортної діяльності. Обґрунтовано напрями та методи боротьби радянського уряду з контрабандним бізнесом.

Согласованность действий группы компаний в сфере интеллектуальной собственности как фактор риска для экономики государства

The sphere of trade in intellectual property is of great interest within the group of companies, especially if the international component is involved in this mechanism. This is due to the advantages offered to them in terms of rationalization of their activities and diversification of risks. However, this factor, as well as the associated large flow of cash flows, is the object of close control by the state, aimed at countering shadow schemes for legalization and withdrawal of funds abroad or understatement of the tax base within the country. The purpose of the article is to identify potential risks for the state from concerted actions within the group of companies. The methodology of the research consists of formal-legal, comparative, analytical methods, system approach. It is concluded that the system of relations in foreign trade in intellectual property is a complex mechanism, which is based on a large set of different standards. However, given the versatility and continuous development of these relations, there are situations that are not regulated at the legislative level. Therefore, the courts have a special role, which can be either an additional tool to protect the economic security of the state, or a factor contributing to the development of the shadow sector of the economy. The value of the study lies in the accumulation of relevant information about the state of this sphere, including taking into account judicial practice, and identifying problematic issues that need to be addressed.

The analysis of the development of the sino-russian economy and trade within the Belt and Road initiative

The New Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road united under the short title «The Belt and Road» represent a collaborative project of the economic development of China and its neighboring countries which are at the same time its partners. While the global economy is improving, the Chinese economy is entering a new standard state, while the Russian economy currently demonstrates quite unbalanced economic structure.This article analyses the positive impact of the Belt and Road initiative on the sustainable development of China and Russia in the sphere of economics, cultural exchange and trade (for example, transboundary e-commerce). It is noted that having chosen the Belt and Road initiative as a starting point, both parties should pursue common goals strengthening their economic cooperation on mutually beneficial conditions and achieve new development by making common efforts.

AMBIVALENT VISTAS DIPLOMACY OF THE UNITED STATES AND CUBA REFERENCES

AMBIVALENT VISTAS DIPLOMACY OF THE UNITED STATES AND CUBA REFERENCES

The US Trade Wars and the Potential for their Impact on the Economy of Kazakhstan

Trade wars initiated by the United States worsen the global economic prospects and form an unfavorable background for the development of countries, dependent on the world trade, including Kazakhstan. In this regard, there is a need to evaluate the potential for the influence of the world economy situation on the prospects for the development of the kazakhstani economy, which is being undertaken in this article. To achieve this goal, the current policy of the US administration in the foreign trade sphere are considered, and assessing its impact on the world economy and prospects for its continuation as well. The impact of trade wars on the Kazakh economy is estimated in several directions - from the potential to reduce the country’s foreign trade to shocks that may be caused by the fall of world markets due to the escalation of the conflict of the world’s leading economies. The main result is a quantitative evaluation of the negative impact potential of trade wars on Kazakhstan in key areas on the basis of a scenario approach, with three scenarios, from moderate to crisis. The most likely scenario is the moderate impact of trade wars on the economy of Kazakhstan, and the main directions of their negative impact are the worsening of the balance of payments due to the reduction in exports, the devaluation of the tenge and the growth of public debt and budget expenditures for interest payment.

МЕГАТРЕНДИ РОЗВИТКУ ЕЛЕКТРОННОЇ ТОРГІВЛІ У КОНТЕКСТІ СУЧАСНОЇ ТЕХНОЛОГІЧНОЇ РЕВОЛЮЦІЇ

Висвітлено питання розвитку електронної (цифрової) торгівлі як однієї з ключових тенденцій у трансформації сучасного світового господарства.Акцентовано увагу на багатоаспектності проявів електронної (цифрової) торгівлі та на вираженій тенденції до подальшої диверсифікації форм цієї торгівлі в умовах інтенсивних технологічних перетворень сучасності. Її поширення пов’язано із зростаючою роллю ІКТ, при цьому доведено, що темпи та ефективність їх поширення у сфері торговельно-економічних операцій значною мірою зумовлюються наявністю інформаційно-комунікаційної інфраструктури належної якості.Показано, що нові перспективи розвитку електронної комерції пов’язані з новими ключовими технологіями четвертої промислової революції – аналітикою, побудованою на великих базах даних, блокчейн-технологіями, Інтернетом речей та штучним інтелектом. Автор стверджує, що новітні технології створюють фундамент для системної зміни самого характеру економічних та неекономічних відносин.Доведено, що процес поширення електронної торгівлі є суперечливим і пов’язаний з можливою наявністю як позитивних результатів, так і негативних наслідків. Позитивні ефекти зумовлені, насамперед, істотним скороченням витрат і розширенням асортименту пропозиції, збільшенням можливостей просування своїх товарів і послуг на ринку (особливо для малого й середнього бізнесу), істотним скороченням часу для здійснення комерційних операцій. Водночас підкреслено значення безпеки економічного розвитку та захисту прав особистості, оскільки в умовах поширення електронної торгівлі ризики в цих аспектах зростають.Особливу увагу приділено важливості координації політики щодо розвитку електронної торгівлі, а також охарактеризовано роль у розвитку та регулюванні електронної торгівлі провідних міжнародних організацій – ООН (ЮНКТАД і ЮНСІТРАЛ), СОТ, ОЕСР, Всесвітньої митної організації, Всесвітнього поштового союзу. На прикладі Європейського Союзу (політика формування єдиного цифрового ринку) та Євразійського економічного союзу (Цифровий порядок денний ЄАЕС до 2025 року) показано зростаюче значення міжнародної регіональної політики у вирішенні вказаної проблеми.

Russia’s Foreign Trade under the Anti-Russian Sanctions

Development model based on the export of raw materials and high dependence on external economic conditions are among the main strategic threats to the national security of the Russian Federation in the field of economy. So, a number of states, not without reason, are trying to realize these threats in order to achieve their geopolitical goals by imposing different restrictions, various prohibitions and multiple sanctions. Some results of the analysis of the impact of the anti-Russian sanctions on the Russian foreign trade in 2014-2016 I present in this article. For the sphere of foreign trade, it is shown that the negative impact of prohibitions and sanctions, as well as adverse external and unfavourable internal processes and factors, had a greater impact, first of all, on the fuel and energy, petrochemical and machine-building complexes. The subjects of the Russian Federation with a high concentration of export and import, oil and gas extraction and metal-production were affected stronger than other regions. Along with this, the impact of sanctions and the response of the Russian government are stronger on the export of Russian products than on imports.

A GRAVITY MODEL OF TRADE TURNOVER BETWEEN UKRAINE AND THE EU

Determining the conditions for further liberalization and the reality of long-term and effective trade and economic cooperation of Ukraine with the EU countries requires assessing the strength and probability of the influence of institutional factors. The possibility of taking into account the significance of institutional factors in the development of foreign trade relations creates a gravity modelling. Determination of gravitational principles of foreign trade actualizes the problem of developing the gravity model, which takes into account impact of institutional factors, contains the necessary and sufficient number of factors, and may be tested for adequacy based on statistical data. The purpose of the paper is to construct the gravity model taking into account the institutional conditions of trade and its empirical verification on the example of trade turnover between Ukraine and the EU. Methodology. Methods of statistical analysis and econometric modelling were used for constructing the gravity model, estimating its statistical significance and predictive ability. In the article, the necessity of taking into account the influence of institutional factors on the formation of the competitive status of the country in the sphere of international trade is substantiated. It is proved that, in conditions of increasing the contradictory nature of trade relations, the role of institutional gravity factors in foreign trade between states increases. The result of the article is the gravity model with such explanatory factors, as the gross domestic product of trade partners in purchasing power parity and the complex characteristic of “trade distance” between countries as an indicator of the influence of institutional factors on foreign trade relations. As a conclusion, it may be noted that the model is statistically significant, adequately describes the input data. The proposed model takes into account the presence of institutional factors of foreign trade, whose influence on the interstate trade and economic cooperation conditions is constantly increasing. Value/originality. The proposed results can be used for modelling and forecasting of foreign trade between trading partners, taking into account the impact of specific institutional factors on their foreign trade relations.

UKRAINIAN-CZECH ECONOMIC LINKS: DIPLOMACY, TRADE, AND TOURISM (THE BEGINNING OF THE ХХІ CENTURY)

The article’s purpose is in a complex manner to analyse Ukrainian-Czech economic cooperation throughout 2000-2017, particularly, in the sphere of economic diplomacy, trade, and tourism. The research methods. The methodological base for a systemic research into Ukrainian-Czech economic cooperation consists of general scientific principles and postulates, as also a wide spectrum of methods, which passed into the theory of international relations from philosophy, gnoseology, ontology, axiology, dialectics, logic, history, and other particular sciences. The results. It has been proved that the bilateral cooperation under consideration depended on the Ukrainian-Czech contract-legal base coordination level, which regulated their mutual relations, repayment prospects of Ukraine’s “Yamburg debt” to the Czech Republic, the scope of cooperation of each of the countries with the European Union, and level of tourist attraction. The main long-term economic interests of Ukraine in its relations with the Czech Republic were such: the development of an economic dialogue, the realization of the common Ukrainian-Czech economic and investment projects, and cooperation in tourism development. The economically-advisory dialogue between Ukraine and the Czech Republic, according to their bilateral interstate agreements, was carried out by the Ukrainian-Czech Commission on trade and economic cooperation, the Working group on the liberalization of their mutual trade, and by other institutional bodies. The expert consultations about the cooperation in the areas of tourism, power engineering, agriculture, banking, and other social components made up an effective form of economic dialogue. The signed inter-governmental and inter-departmental contract-legal certificates became an effective result of positive economic cooperation. The most active work in this direction was done on the eve and in the first years of Czechia’s membership in the European Union. Despite much work done, it did not bring about the possibility to solve problem questions and to eliminate existing barriers in the bilateral trade. After Czechia’s joining the EU, the improvement of a trading mode between the two countries rests within the plane of agreements and the development of a necessary contract-legal base with the EU. Conclusion. The bilateral economic cooperation between Ukraine and the Czech Republic has every prospect for further intensification, especially, in the sphere of statistics of the bilateral trade and economic relations, in Ukraine’s fulfilment of its commitments provided by “Yamburg agreements”, and in the popularizations of Ukraine’s positive tourist image.