Over the centuries, foreign trade has been and remains the most important form of foreign economic cooperation that retains its leading role in the development of national economies and the world economy as a whole. At present, we are going through a difficult period of qualitative changes related to the development trends of globalization and the post-industrial transformation of the world economy. These trends in the development of foreign trade are reflected in the concentration and internationalization of production and transnational capital structures, the emergence of global markets, the conversion of information, their knowledge and integration in the production of innovation as a basic resource in the production process. competition and profit growth. In our view, these changes pose new challenges for national economies, which not all countries can cope with, which prevents their effective integration into the modern world economic system.