The research aims to identify the role that foreign trade plays in the Syrian economy, They are an important part of the national economy, and which is secured need the economy to build production capacity of capital goods, and through the discharge of the flooding of the need for domestic demand of the product, and therefore the external sector developments reflect the productive structure of the national economy, employment and price and income level. . and also the effects of economic policies. The researcher has addressed the economic reforms that directly affect the foreign trade, and then analyzed the structure of the foreign trade to discover the real economic potentials and the necessary requirements for the promotion.