Summary 

The international market of high technology is an area of ​​international exchange of innovative technologies that are carried out in order to increase the technical and technological level of production and profit. The exchange is based on a transaction whose subjects are state structures, private firms, companies and individuals who sell their scientific-technical achievements or use them in their own production. Exchanging is a special kind of item - "Technology-Goods" as a material / machine-driven /, as well as non-material / research results, information, production knowledge, experience, management, know-how, licenses, patents and other forms.

The paper analyzes the main concepts and characteristics of trade with technologies, the most remarkablare the characteristics of the exchange object; More rapid growth of the technology market, compared to trade with other commodities; Peculiar cycle characteristics of the technology-goods market; Multiculturalism of such a market; The great aspiration of developing countries to such a market; Specific legal-normative base and etc.