The impact of international integration on international trade is increasing mostly due to the penetration of
imports to the domestic producers' market. Sutcliffe and Glyn (2003) consider the best way to measure the impact of
globalization by the indicator of import penetration of the domestic market, which, in their opinion, best reflects the
impact of international competition within domestic economies. The figure represents imports as a share of apparent
consumption (production plus imports less exports). In developed countries with the classical structure of imports
(the main imported products are raw materials, food products and petroleum products) imported products are linked
together, but do not compete with domestic industry. However, recently, the imports are making pressure on the
most important sectors of economy of the country, not only for those directly involved in foreign markets. Imports
of raw materials and food products decreases, and according to Feenstra (1998), an increasing part of imported
products are intermediate goods – semi-finished and components. The share of intermediate products in
international trade is increasing and varies in individual country, but in average it is about 56% for goods and 70 %
for services (Xu, 2012). The growth of the share of intermediate products is induced by international fragmentation
of the production chain, the global spread of the sources of international manufacturing companies and
dissemination of foreign direct investment. Traditional trade statistics data, which measures the value of trade flows
each time the products cross the border, becomes irrelevant in measuring the impact of international trade on
economic development.