Existing of contradictions in terms of selection of foreign economic policy forms by countries is explained taking into account the fact that the country’s customs space is an open system that is substantially influenced by global environment and the countries’ major benchmarks are directed at achievement of sustainable (balanced). The paper mentions that sustainable (balanced) development requires elaboration of new approaches to solution of existing global problems. A customs space at both global and national levels is one of the determinants of sustainable (balanced) development. The hypothesis about the existence of customs space major characteristics’ influence on the indicators that show social, ecological and economic fields of balanced development is offered. Instability of customs space is explained and the multitude of customs space and sustainable development is formed. Conditions and parameters of international trade, characteristics of customs regimes and tariff rates, etc are chosen as the major indicators that characterize the customs space. Sustainable (balanced) development is characterized by HDI, the level of economic growth, social progress, ecological efficiency, global competitive ability, economic freedom, etc. The structure of links and dependence between the variables of both multitudes is determined through the set of instruments of canonical correlation analysis using the STATISTICA package. In the course of analysis the following parameters were calculated: the percentage of indicators of global customs space that determine the variations of sustainable (balanced) development indicators; canonical radicals and canonical scales of the indicators of global customs space and sustainable (balanced) development; overall share of dispersion and overall loses. 10 characteristic and 10 canonical radicals were obtained as the result of calculations. Examining of correlation between the first canonical radical and variables of multitudes thorough defining of their factor structure was conducted. Structural coefficients in both multitudes were analyzed. On the basis of canonical scales analysis in the process of evaluation the variables influencing the weighted sum (canonical variable) for each multitude was found. The equation of new canonical variables was constructed. The chart of canonical variables was built to prove the lack of substantial emissions and U or S-shaped forms around the regression line. Possible groupings of countries of the examined sample are found on the basis of scatterogram assessment. 

globalization, global environment, customs space, duty, sustainable (balanced) development