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INTRODUCTION. Since there are many threats in the modern world, states consider the essence of security in its various manifestations. A rather extensive understanding of security should be noted, as this concept applies to multiple directions of our life. So-called SPS measures are one of the vectors aimed at ensuring safety (protection) of human life and health. The scientific literature covers rather extensively SPS measures, taken by states, which include mandatory sanitary, veterinary and quarantine phytosanitary requirements and procedures. The novelty of the study is that SPS measures will be analyzed in terms of their use as hidden barriers to international trade, as well as how often they are used when a particular sanitary or phytosanitary measure imposed by a state or maintained in force by a member of an international organization restrains or can potentially restrain export of its goods.MATERIALS AND METHODS. In international trade certain issues of the contemplated problem are regulated by Article XX of GATT, as well as by the Special Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement). Security measures reflected in the Article XXI of GATT-94 are not considered.RESEARCH RESULTS. Th author concluded that SPS measures construe hidden barriers to international trade. However, it is possible to establish "rules of the game", to agree on this problem in concluded agreements on the rules of application of SPS measures, minimizing the possibility of their unfair use. As for the EAEU law, it affects the development of international norms in the field under consideration.DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS. The urgency of the issues dealt with in the article is based on the fact that every resident of any state in one way or another wants to be sure of the safety of all that he consumes and that the state or a number of states within the framework of an international organization are obliged to ensure this. The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) is no exception, it also faces similar tasks. The article analyzes the results of activities in the sphere of decision-making on SPS measures and the framework of the international organization of regional economic integration – the EAEU.

The countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (further - EAEU) make great efforts to develop the export of goods and to become part of regional and global production chains. Free-trade agreements are the most effective tool, which enables the expansion and simplification of access to foreign markets for domestic producers. The EAEU has made use of the right to make a global free-trade agreement (further - the Agreement) for the first time, and Vietnam has been chosen to be such a state. The article examines the innovative ideas, incorporated in the agreement; obligations ofthe EAEU countries are compared to the ones arising from the WTO membership of several EAEU countries. These are questions of trade liberalization, a wide range of aspects, connected with intellectual property, compensatory and anti-dumping measures, tariff and non-tariff barriers, technical, sanitary and phytosanitary regulation, economic advantages of the agreement for the EAEU countries, mutual obligations regarding reduction or zeroing of customs tariff rates.

The history of the anti-dumping regulation formed by two closely interrelated components: national and international. Antidumping regulation was born on a national basis. The uniform rules consist of article VI of GATT and special international agreements, commonly referred to anti-dumping codes. Following the adoption and changes of the uniform rules new provisions and changes in anti-dumping laws are adopted. The law of the United States notably stands out by its influence on the uniform rules, and specific approaches to resolving many issues. In the given article an attempt to discover the issues of development of international component of the antidumping regulation is made.

The article is dedicated to the principle of the territoriality of IP rights of Intellectual property law. The article pays special attention to the problem of conflict of laws and Intellectual Property Rights and analyses some of international conventions.

GATT article I (1) provides for WTO members to accord Most-Favoured-Nation treatment to like products of other WTO members regarding tariffs, regulations on exports and imports, internal taxes and charges, and internal regulations. The MFN is a fundamental principle of the WTO.The GATT and the WTO Agreement provide for certain exceptions to the MFN principle, for example, generalized system of preferences, non-application of multilateral trade agreements and other exceptions. Exceptions guarantee the account of interests of participants and flexibility of the WTO law, but related exceptions need to be carefully administered so as not to undermine the MFN principle.