© 2017. Babatunde Afolabi, Jonathan D. Danladi & Muhyideen I. Azeez. This is a research/review paper, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by- nc/3.0/), permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. International Trade and Economic Growth in Nigeria By Babatunde Afolabi, Jonathan D. Danladi & Muhyideen I. Azeez Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria Abstract- This study examined the impact of international trade on economic growth in Nigeria, with the objective of identifying the major factors influencing economic growth through international trade and make policy suggestions. This study made use of time series secondary data obtained from Central Bank of Nigeria, National Bureau of Statistics and International Financial Statistics for a period between 1981 and 2014. Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) test together with Phillip- Perron (PP) test of Unit Root Tests were employed to ascertain the stationarity properties of the variables. The Ordinary Least Square (OLS) technique was used to test for the significant relationship between the level of economic growth proxied by GDP as dependent variable and exchange rate, government expenditure, interest rate, foreign direct investment, import and export as independent variables. The result revealed that government expenditures, interest rate, import and export are all positively significant while exchange rate and foreign direct investment are negatively insignificant to the growth process of the Nigerian Economy. Keywords: international trade, economic growth, interest rate and government expenditure. GJHSS-E Classification: FOR Code: 910103, 910399 InternationalTradeandEconomicGrowthinNigeria Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of: Global Journal of HUMAN-SOCIAL SCIENCE: E Economics Volume 17 Issue 5 Version 1.0 Year 2017 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Inc. (USA) Online ISSN: 2249-460x & Print ISSN: 0975-587X