The article is devoted to the legal analysis of the peculiarities of concluding agreements in the sphere of economic and trade activity. The article emphasizes that among the civil law contracts, which are the basis for the obligation, a special place is occupied by the trade and economic contract. It is noted that the trade and economic agreement does not mean a separate type, but a set of agreements with a number of such inherent qualities that necessitate to establish within the general rules of contract law rules common to business agreements only - deliveries, contracts for capital construction, transportation of goods, operation of non-public railway access roads, etc. The commonality of these agreements is expressed in a number of features, which are also covered in this article. It is emphasized that trade and economic agreements pursue certain economic goals and serve economic activities. It is noted that the specifics of trade and economic agreements is that they are or are planned. It is recorded that the forms of economic and trade activities include: logistics and sales (supply and purchase and sale); energy supply; procurement (contract of contracting of agricultural products); Wholesale; retail trade and public catering; sale and lease of means of production; commercial mediation in the implementation of trade activities and other ancillary activities to ensure the sale of goods (services) in the field of circulation (agency agreements, commissions, instructions, transport and forwarding activities, etc.). Emphasis is placed on the fact that this commonality of all economic agreements and necessitates the establishment of a number of general rules for them, and therefore it is necessary to study the theoretical basis of the trade and economic agreement.