Foreign trade in agricultural products and foodstuffs of the Republic of Belarus

This article discusses the basic patterns of foreign trade of the Republic of Belarus agricultural products and foodstuffs for the period of 2014-2016 To conduct the analysis we used the methods of comparative analysis and index method. The study found that over the last 3 years the volume of foreign trade of the Republic of Belarus of the products tend to decrease. The decrease is due to declining exports and imports of agricultural products and food products. The products are mainly supplied to the markets of CIS and Russia market. The trade balance with these countries has a positive value. On the positive impact on the balance of payments of these goods confirms the calculation of the coverage ratio of imports by exports and net trade index. Trade with countries outside the CIS has a negative balance. Thus, in 2016 the total net trade with these countries amounted to -0,8261, indicating a significant predominance of imports in trade with these countries. The study of the import and export of certain products has also shown that most of the products supplied to the markets of the CIS countries and mainly only on the Russian market. During the studied period the export of beef, poultry meat and edible offal, of the poultry was carried out only on the CIS market and, in particular, mostly to the Russian market. The imports of certain agricultural products and foodstuffs may be more than 50,00% from countries outside the CIS. Based on the studies that are currently relevant to the Republic's economy remains export diversification.