The Application of Network Methods in the Analysis of Export and Import Structures

This study aims to analyze network collaboration in trade among the most developed international exporters-importers states. To achieve this purpose the paper investigates the most important theoretical and empirical aspects of the network models of international trade within 8 categories of goods in consistent with the data from the World Integrated Trade Solution website. The main features of the network dynamic estimates of trade between countries in 1997 - 2017 are highlighted. The most indispensable contributions of the research are that the 10 largest exporters-importers specifications and key global intermediaries and importers are defined. This paper examines the main factors influencing the formation of exports and imports in terms of the econometrical analysis on the example of agricultural commodities, manufactures and fuel.