As a result of transnationalization of production and a financial system, rapid growth of the international movement of the capitals and the number of the multinational companies, progress of transport and telecommunications, penetrations of the Internet into all spheres of human activity from 1980th years in the world began globalization processes. New mechanisms of spatial and regional social and economic development of the world became the important prerequisite of globalization. In these conditions interest to spatial regularities of economic activity and new mechanisms of use of space became more active. Observed is a rapid growth of international trade. Growth rate of international trade exceeds growth rates of world gross domestic product, industrial and agricultural production. Specific weight of world trade in economy exceeded 25%. The global markets become more important, than domestic markets. For international trade there is characteristic a high concentration of export and import in certain regions. At the beginning of the XXI century the main regions of concentration of international trade are Europe, Asia and North America. In the last decades rapid growth of specific weight of developing countries in international trade is characteristic. The share of developing countries in world export reached 40% by 2010. Fast strengthening of economy of the developing and new industrial countries of Asia became the main factor of the occurred changes. It led to emergence of a new tendency to decrease in a role of integration groups. Specific weight in world export of two most influential integration associations,– EU and NAFTA – in the first decade of this century was reduced by 10%. Important tendency of modern international geographical division of labor – increase in volumes of intra-branch trade (about 40% of world trade). This tendency turned out to be consequence of internationalization of economic life, considerable expansion of geography of activity of numerous multinational corporations. Global social and economic crises caused search of new modern models of world economic communications. The external economic clusters could become a new effective form of use of space in the international geographical division of labor. The prerequisite of formation of the external economic clusters is concentration of economic density and international trade in certain territories.

Охарактеризованы современные тенденции развития международной торговли. Проанализированы пространственные особенности международного географического разделения труда.