Bilovol M. International legal regulation of trade in commodities.

This dissertation research is the first thorough, comprehensive and generalizing analysis of international legal regulation of commodity trade both in domestic and foreign science. In this thesis in particular: preconditions for establishing international cooperation on export and import of commodities have been investigated; overview of the first examples of international commodity agreements in the areas of sugar, wheat, rubber and tin has been provided; all international trade agreements that were concluded within the framework of the United Nations have been analyzed; key provisions of the The Integrated Programme for Commodities and the Common Fund for Commodities have been studied; the classification of international commodity agreements has been shown; a modern institutional framework for the international trade in commodities has been outlined. Special attention has also been given to the issues of international legal cooperation of Ukraine in the field of commodities trading.