FOREIGN?TRADE SECTOR OF UKRAINIAN ECONOMY

There have been discovered specific trends of the movement of foreign ? trade flows and changes under institutional conditions, which have turned out to be in Ukraine within the recent years and in the current year in particular. There have been revealed the reasons for reducing price competitiveness of export and the possibility of the transition to non-price methods of competitive struggle. There have been characterized the reasons and consequences of critical retardation of Ukraine in the area of high-technological export, positive and negative sides of import substitution, shortcomings of customs protection in the innovation sphere, there have been offered the measures towards improving the situation in the foreign-trade sector of Ukraine.