Trade is the most important way of economic growth for any country. The continuous growth inrnworld trade depends on the efficiency of trade support structures such as the logistics services.rnHowever, for most African countries, inadequate infrastructure and poor transport network make itrndifficult for their manufacturers to participation in new global outsourcing and just in time production orrnensure reliability or flexibility in the supply of the goods. While, logistic systems are strongly connectedrnto trade gain growing importance to describe the competitiveness of countries in a globalized world. Anrnincrease in world trade simultaneously requires a progress in transport technologies and qualitativernlogistics are a necessary condition for foreign investors to operate efficiently. The aim of this paper is tornexamine the contribution of logistics for export trade of major export goods of Ethiopia and to show thernimportance of logistics for an enhancement in investment and trade. The analysis also has extended byrninvestigating if the specific dimensions of logistics performance (logistics specificities) matter forrninternational traders. An empirical approach was designed where secondary data is used to perform arnpanel data analysis. The panel consists of multi-year data for ten Ethiopian export trade partnerrncountries over the years 2007-2016. The Logistics Performance Index includes six different variablesrnsuch as infrastructure, quality of logistics service, customs, international shipment, track and trace andrntimeliness. Furthermore distance between sample country, GDP and populations were considered asrncontrol variables. The panel data analysis allows measuring the concrete impact of each variable onrntrade. The researcher used explanatory research design, and adopts a quantitative longitudinal researchrnapproach. Then inferential statistics was used to make inference the effect of explanatory variables onrndependent variable (Export trade). Finally based on the findings result the researcher have been reachedrnconclusions and gives recommendations in which area of logistics an improvement could be necessary.rnThe results show that there is a statistically significant relation between logistics and trade. Customsrnclearance, Transport infrastructure, especially the quality of roads and ports, and timeliness were foundrnto be the most important factor affecting exports and imports. The study was able to show that anrnincreased logistics capability of country leads to an increase in trade volumes. The findings from thernpanel data analysis identified four out of six logistics variables those show a significant positive effect onrnEthiopian major export goods. In general the researcher concluded that the study overall hypothesisrncould be accepted as logistics influences the trade performance of a country. Hereafter, the paper fills therngap in literature by showing the need of a high quality logistic sector and gives incentives in which arearnof logistics an improvement could be necessary. Finally, A recommendation for decision makers, policyrnmakers, and concerned bodies has been forwarded to give an emphasize for the urgent need ofrnimprovement on the logistic performance in order to boost the country export performance as well as tornbe competent in international trade market.