The analysis of the region’s foreign economic activity (on the example of the Republic of Buryatia)

The article provides the analysis of foreign economic activity of one of the Russian Federation's regions (Republic of Buryatia) from 2010 to 2015. It offers the general characteristic of foreign trade on the basis of statistical data analysis of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation (cost export volumes, import, a foreign trade turnover). The authors study the commodity structure of republican import and export with allocation of the main goods items. The main countries partners of the Republic of Buryatia are considered in the work. The main indicators characterizing foreign economic activity are given (export quota, import quota, foreign trade quota, import export coverage ratio, coefficient of foreign trade turnover elasticity, the international competitiveness coefficient) and their calculation technique. Based on the given indicators the efficiency evaluation of foreign economic activity implementation is carried out.