In this essay I would like to analyse the place and role of the international ecomonic relations, especialy the role of foreign trade in Romanian economy. Here I tryed to find out eloquently the changes that appear in the Romanian foreign trade level after the year 1989, both appreciation of import and export structure and their massive geographic reorientation. Certainly, proximity and finally accession to the European Union, at the institutional level, and not only, also brought about implicitly fundamental changes in comercial transactions which Romania performs at the regional and international level. In conception and achivement of the objective mentioned above I started with some fundamental principles, which teoreticians, methodologiests, esspecially epistemologiests in economic domain developed along decades. These principles were synthetized by American economist Gregory N. Mankiw.