Book excerpt: Diploma Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Law - European and International Law, Intellectual Properties, grade: MA, Columbia International University, language: English, abstract: The second half of the 20th century was characterized by a worldwide trend in the development of foreign economic trade relations, and, as a consequence, the complication of the legal regulation of market relations in various international contracts: commercial, financial or cross-border provision of services. In the context of globalization, which covered all spheres of society's life, the content of international trade turnover is changing. Its modern distinctive features are the following: the expansion of trade items (apart from the traditional trade in goods, also trade in services, intellectual property, capital is increasingly taking place); the emergence of new types of contracts (factoring, franchising, etc.); strengthening the role of universal international treaties on trade, services, intellectual property; the emergence of new world markets for currency and capital; stepping up of the activities of international economic organizations; introduction of new information technologies into the trade. The indicator of growth in international trade turnover is also the growth in exports. The rapid growth of the modern world economy, the rapid development of economic and scientific and technical cooperation between different countries lead to the fact that “the world economy increasingly acquires the features of a single organism beyond which no state of the world can function properly”