The article is devoted to the peculiarities of international strategy development. The main goal of the research is to provide the system of the most relevant factors that should be analyzed for the right international strategic choice. The factors are divided into three major groups, industry factors, macroeconomic factors and company’s internal factors. After analyzing these factors the company should be able to take the top priority decision on its international business that is about determining the right degree of adaptation and standardization. The research results can be utilized by companies’ that are planning to start or already conducting international business operations.сможет принять стратегическое решение в отношении своего международного бизнеса, состоящее в определении необходимой степени его адаптации и стандартизации. Результаты исследования могут быть использованы в практической деятельности компаний, планирующих или уже занимающихся международным бизнесом.

Growing intensity of foreign trade liberalization during last decades, mainly evident in tariff reductions and increased access to domestic service sectors, provokes application of new protectionist trade policy methods, like restrictions on foreign participation in government procurement. Such measures become of vital importance in case of developing countries after their accession to the WTO. The article deals with the possible ways of providing support to national producers through government orders allocation in theory and in practice, illustrated by public procurement regimes in China, South Africa, Brazil and Mexico.

The article is devoted to the research on the contemporary types of strategic alliances. The main goal of the paper is to suggest a complex approach to international strategic alliances classification based on the model of their establishment and operation process. The model allows to systematize and logically connect existing separate theoretical approaches to alliances classification as well as to add new types of alliances to it. The research results may be used by companies in their business activities in the process of establishing a strategic alliance under conditions of international competition

The article is devoted to the research on the contemporary types of strategic alliances. The main goal of the paper is to suggest a complex approach to international strategic alliances classification based on the model of their establishment and operation process. The model allows to systematize and logically connect existing separate theoretical approaches to alliances classification as well as to add new types of alliances to it. The research results may be used by companies in their business activities in the process of establishing a strategic alliance under conditions of international competition

The TPP Agreement is studied in the context of intra-regional agricultural trade commitments. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) parties are a diverse group in terms of involvement in global agricultural trade and the level of applied tariffs on agriculture and food. The specifics of commitments under the TPP are revealed including a record reduction of tariffs on agricultural products with a number of exceptions and incorporation of WTO-plus and WTO-beyond obligations. The prospects and challenges of the TPP intra-regional agricultural trade liberalization for Russia’s agricultural exports are considered.

This article is devoted to analysis of international legal regulation of taking trade restricting measures concerning international trade in marine living resources. The author studies multilateral environmental agreements and case law of international courts and tribunals in the context of taking above mentioned measures. The author gives reasons for necessity of taking trade restricting measures concerning international trade in marine living resources to achieve at one and the same time purposes of environmental protection and economic development. Trade restricting measures become standards of economic activity in the sphere of trade in marine living resources for the purposes of sustainable management, fair and mutually beneficial cooperation of the states.

Th e last two decades have seen a rapid expansion of Regional trade agreements (RTA) including republics of the Community of Independent States (CIS). Th e reason for this phenomenon is that the RTAs have certain advantages. At the same time the RTAs can greatly complicate the trading environment, creating a web of incoherent rules. In order to avoid a further growing tension between RTAs and Multilateral Trading System there is only one way: harmonizing both.

Over the years of WTO work, the inconsistency of positions on individual issues between countries, as well as groups of countries, has often led to a deadlocks  in the solution of certain trade and political problems. However, the joint search for mutually beneficial, compromise ways, the willingness of participants to Dialogue at the WTO platform demonstrated the viability of the multilataral trading system.

The article deals with the current and emerging problems of the Multilateral Trade System, i.e. WTO. In the  beginning the author analysis  the results of the 10th Ministerial Conference in Nairobi emphasizing the appearance of the split among members, for first time since 2002,  on the fundamental issue of the Doha round mandate. The author further suggests  that  current multilateral trade governance is far more complex than ever before. The international trade changed profoundly. But the WTO did not adapt to the changes. The megaregional trade agreements (MRTA) like TPP, TTIP can provide trade with some modern rules but  cannot bring universal solution. The author believe it is time to start to consider a system of  multi-pillar  global trade governance with the WTO as a central pillar.