Hedging as an instrument of improving the effectiveness of foreign trade activities of the organization

This article provides an overview the need to use derivative hedging instruments in the foreign trade activities of organizations as one of the elements of the organizational and economic mechanism of the company’s foreign economic activity. Examples are given of the application of financial risk hedging methods for export deliveries of grain, which depend on exchange rate fluctuations and price changes. Hedging mechanisms for forward, futures, spot and options contracts are analyzed.