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Negotiations on Belarusian-Russian milk trade continue in Moscow
BelTA reported earlier that the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance of Russia (Rosselkhoznadzor) has postponed the introduction of a ban on dairy import from Belarus to 15 March...

Belarus president urges to modernize tax system
“This year the government and the parliament should modernize the tax system and eradicate all superfluous things”...

Lukashenko orders to eliminate red tape in investment
“The level of dialogue and the pace of response to emerging issues should meet the expectations of a businessman. There should be no red tape”...

Belarusian government told not to use state budget to pay off corporate loans
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said at a meeting to hear out the reports of the government, the National Bank, the oblast executive committees and Minsk City Hall on the economic performance in 2017 and goals to secure the country’s sustainable economic growth...

Azerbaijan president’s aide meets with Hi-Tech Park director
Hi-Tech Park Director Vsevolod Yanchevsky took the Azerbaijani delegation on a tour around the park. Representatives of the Hi-Tech Park resident companies showcased their product and technologies...

Belarus aims to reach $100m in food exports to China
"Today we sell our food products to almost 80 countries. The Chinese market is one of the main destinations"...

Belarusian businessman suggests issuing cryptobonds
“We have discussed it with the central bank and intend to discuss it with the Finance Ministry,” explained the businessman...

Belarus floats $600m worth of eurobonds
“As a result of meetings of top officials of Belarusian financial and economic agencies with potential investors in New York and Boston, USA and in London, UK on 28 February 2018 the floatation of another issue of Belarusian eurobonds has been completed”...

Belarus aims to harvest 9m grain in 2018
“Any state seeks to be self-sufficient in crop products and to have a surplus to sell”...

Dairy products account for 64% of Belarus’ exports to China
At the end of December of 2017, during the visit of the Belarusian delegation led by Agriculture and Food Minister Leonid Zayats to China, the parties signed the contracts worth $114 million...

Belarus, Russia to work out mechanism to resolve mutual animal products trade disputes
According to Aleksei Bogdanov, Belarus is now taking a closer look at how much Belarusian food Russia can buy...

Kazakhstan’s vice premier meets with Hi-Tech Park director
The visit focused on discussing cooperation in digitization in the Eurasian Economic Union and sharing IT development experience of Kazakhstan and Belarus...

Belarusian MTZ to make more tractors for precision farming
According to the source, the share of innovative products in the output of the Belarusian tractor maker exceeds 20% and continues rising...

Geely Altas sales kick off in Russia
More than 20 Russian dealers had signed agreements on the sales of cars produced at the BelGee car factory in Belarus...

Belarusian government considering selling state shares in mobile carrier BeST
The matter was discussed during the government conference held by Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on 27 February to discuss development prospects of the Belarusian telecommunication services market...

Loans for Egyptian farmers to buy Belarusian tractors
MTZ believes that this year tractor export to Africa can be greatly increased thanks to larger shipments to Egypt, which economy is experiencing a revival. MTZ’s trading house in Egypt stepped up its work in 2017...

EU Twinning project officially launched in Belarus
"We are honored to be the first Belarusian government institution to start Twinning. We are aware of the complexity and the magnitude of the project and intend to approach its implementation in the most professional, responsible way"...

MTZ rice farming tractor undergoing tests in Vietnam
It is expected that this model will help MTZ increase its presence in the countries of South-East Asia. “We have made some adjustments and now the tractor is ready for the market,” Andrei Stasilevich said...

Belarus, Russia’s Smolensk Oblast agree on number of cooperation programs
“We are interested in localizing the production of Belarusian goods in Smolensk Oblast. The matter concerns first of all the Minsk Tractor Plant, because these products are in demand not only in our oblast, but also in the neighboring oblasts”...

Tbilisi to host Georgia-Belarus business forum on 23 March
The participants of the business events will consider promising areas of developing the Belarusian-Georgian trade and economic cooperation, exchange the working experience, talk over issues related to the bilateral cooperation...