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Belarus interested in shipping more vehicles, equipment to Mongolia
Belarusian Industry Minister Piotr Parkhomchik met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mongolia to Belarus Batsukh Bayarsaikhan in the ministry on 23 February...

Lukashenko sends greetings to MTZ on 4 millionth tractor milestone
Aleksandr Lukashenko praised the huge experience of the plant and expressed confidence in its bright future: “There is a great demand for BELARUS-branded products across the globe. Without our tractors, it is impossible to ensure food security of the planet”...

China’s CMCB to become logistics operator for Belarusian commodity exchange in Asia
BUCE and CMCB are planning to formalize the partnership by signing a memorandum of cooperation. According to the representative of the Chinese company, logistics is not the only promising area for interaction...

Belarus’ Fashion Mill presents clothing collections in Dubai
The clothes were presented in the children's, teenagers' and women's segments. The collections of young national designers correspond to the modern vision of national fashion. In addition, they are an organic combination of the historical past and the present and are made of Belarusian-made fabrics...

Belarus eager to sell more goods to Palestine
"Belarus imports a sufficient range of products from Palestine, including the pharmaceutical products that are not manufactured in Belarus. Belarusian products are also sold in Palestine. Certainly, we would like to export more products that sell well"...

Belarus’ food export up by about $1 billion in 2021
Belarusian food was sold into 109 countries, including the Eurasian Economic Union and European Union, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, South and North America...

Export growth seen as priority task for Belarusian government
“Last year, despite all economic difficulties, was a good one. GDP grew by 2.3%. We didn't go into lockdown, we didn't stop production. This helped us to ensure a strong export growth and a record high foreign trade surplus, primarily thanks to industry and services," said Roman Golovchenko...

PM: Belarus’ IT export up by almost a third in 2021
"On the other hand, in 2021 the Belarusian IT sector welcomed more than 100 new companies. They registered with the Hi-Tech Park. Belarus’ IT export increased by almost a third," said Roman Golovchenko...

Romania’s Maramures County considering buying Belarusian electric buses
The entire spectrum of bilateral interaction was discussed during the meetings while focusing on advancing interregional, trade, economic, and investment cooperation as well as cooperation in education, culture, and tourism...

Belarusian companies sign contracts with buyers from 20 countries at Gulfood in Dubai
In particular, the Dzerzhinsky Agrokombinat will ship its poultry meat to Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and its subsidiary "1st Minsk Poultry Farm" will deliver eggs to African countries and the Emirate of Dubai...

Putin: Belarus, Russia will be strengthening their economic sovereignty
In such conditions, Belarus and Russia should boost import substitution and strengthen their economic sovereignty, Vladimir Putin believes...

Lukashenko: Belarus will build port near St. Petersburg
"We will start transshipping these millions of tonnes of cargo within a year or a year and a half (I don't know the exact timeframe as the ambassador is now dealing with this issue)"...

Belarus seeks to use Port of Constanta to facilitate its exports to Romania and beyond
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to Romania Andrei Grinkevich visited Constanta County located in the historical region of Dobruja at the invitation of the Romanian business community...

Belarus to take part in Vietnam Expo in April
Belarus will take part in the event in Vietnam for the eighth time. Previously, the country had its exposition in Hanoi in 2007, 2009, 2012, 2016 and in Ho Chi Minh City in 2011, 2014 and 2018...

TIBO 2022 forum rescheduled for June
An organizing committee has been set up to prepare for the forum. Belarus’ Communications and Informatization Minister Konstantin Shulgan was appointed chairman of the committee...

Belarus exports its dairy to 55 countries in 2021
Cheese accounted for 44.3% of Belarus’ total dairy export. It is followed by butter and whole milk products, and then by skimmed milk powder, whole milk powder and other dairy products...

Belarusian Bellesbumprom’s exports up by 48.2% in 2021
In 2021, Bellesbumprom increased the output of import-substituting products by 63% in 2021 over 2020...

PM: Belarus, Cuba build up trade, consider new joint projects
In 2021 Belarus-Cuba trade amounted to $22.9 million (340% as against 2020); export made up $20.8 million (384.4%). Belarus’ main exports included tractors and tractor units, milk, condensed and dried cream, parts for receiving and transmitting equipment, component parts for trucks and tractors, medical instruments and devices, piston internal combustion engines...

Belarus to use Russian ports for cargo transshipment
"Work is underway to actively use Russian ports for transshipment of Belarusian cargo. This is also a safety net for the future. Although I am convinced that sooner or later the situation in the western direction will normalize. But if our partners do not want to do this, then we must take appropriate steps to neutralize the negative consequences for us"...

Belarusian steel mill BMZ signs $100m contracts at EXPO 2020 in Dubai
At the EXPO 2020, Gomel Oblast made several presentations on its investment, trade and economic potential...