Article is dedicated to the trade and economic links of USA and EU. The authors tried to find out key features and characteristics of these cooperation. The result of the investigation and the analysis is development of the term “economic anamorphosis”, the concept of which is the critical domination of the weight and share of limited list of partners in the system of bilateral cooperation, when one of the partners is regional economic integration, and the biggest share of trade, capital, human and other flows is attracted by these determined limited list of countries. Such situation can be estimated as disproportion of partner’s estimation and evaluation by each other. It means that economic integration is estimated not as the complex partner and subject of the global economy but with the using of deduction method.

Article is dedicated to the trade and economic links of USA and China. The authors tried to find out key features and characteristics of these cooperation. At the same time the authors tried to analyze the logic and the reasons of the trade war that has been escalated by USA against China. It needs to underline that the unfair trade practice of China foreign trade and transfer of technologies led to the American Administration protectionism policy.

Article is dedicated to the determination of key features of the United States participation in the international capital movement on the example of FDI outflows and inflows, and confirmation of its heterogeneous nature. Tax reform that has been implemented in the end of 2017 led to the result when USA was deleted of the list of TOP-20 world investors of 2018 (by UNCTAD). The scientific opinion and fears were connected with the forecasts that the tax reform could change the movement of FDI flows back to the USA from foreign countries, especially, and the countries with the low taxes and the most favorable investment regimes. At the same time, it needs to underline that the analysis of U.S. FDI inflows and outflows showed that the negative indicator of U.S. FDI outflow (export) in 2018-2019 was connected with the repatriation of U.S. holding companies profits, that were doing business in countries with the most favorable tax and investment regimes. The authors tried to investigate the nature of the American holdings role and the integration of U.S. in to the global system of FDI and capital movement.

В данной статье рассматривается положение Соединенных Штатов Америки (США) в системе международного обмена товарами и услугами. Рассматривается трансформация лидеров мировой торговли, характеризующая тенденции в направлении нарастания конкурентных преимуществ со стороны развивающихся экономик, в частности, Китайской Народной Республики (КНР), вошедшей в тройку лидеров по экспорту товаров в 2004 г., и уверенно занимающая первое место с 2009 г. Уделяется значительное внимание товарной структуре американской внешней торговли, характерной чертой которой является превалирование промышленных и капитальных товаров, а также доминирование в структуре туристических и образовательных услуг. Автор проводит достаточно детальное и подробное исследование структуры внешней торговли первой экономики мира. Выявлено, что характерная черта географии внешней торговли США-превалирование развитых экономик в ее структуре (Канада, ЕС, Япония). Среди развивающихся экономик особое место занимают Китай и Мексика.