Regional features of goods export from Ukraine

Abstract

The article analyzes the foreign trade of Ukraine. The research of geographical structure of goods export from Ukraine demonstrates the dominance of CIS countries. Asian countries takes the second place in the structure of Ukrainian exports with slight margin, the European countries occupy the third place.

Based on the research, the regional differences in goods export from Ukraine are identified. In absolute terms, Kyiv, Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions are the leaders in the export of Ukrainian goods to foreign markets. The share of the central and western regions in the country’s export is very low and does not exceed one percent.

The regional patterns in the geographical structure of goods export from Ukraine has been established. The largest share of CIS countries in goods exports occurs mainly in the northern, northeastern, eastern and southern regions of Ukraine and part of the western regions; predominance of Asian countries in goods exports is typical in the southern and southeastern regions, the European countries – in the western regions. The important factors that influence on the geographical structure of Ukrainian export are economic-geographical and transport-geographical location, specialization of the economy, which is the basis of export potential, cooperative relationships established historically and a strong position in existing markets of products. With further development of foreign economic relations Ukraine should take into account existing geographical features of cooperation between the countries