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One company to represent Belarusian tractor maker MTZ in Russia

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MINSK, 8 September (BelTA) – The Belarusian tractor manufacturer MTZ intends to use one point of entry on the Russian market. The trade and production company MTZ-Tatarstan will take care of it, BelTA has learned.

The plans were discussed as MTZ Director General Vitaly Vovk met with Vladimir Semashko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Russia, Deputy Prime Minister for Belarus’ affairs within the framework of the Union State of Belarus and Russia. Belarusian Industry Minister Piotr Parkhomchik and MTZ-Tatarstan Director General Konstantin Anisimov also took part in the meeting.

The ambassador stressed that Russia remains a market of particular importance for Belarus. Nearly half of the products Belarus made were exported to Russia in 2019. MTZ-Tatarstan is an ideal base for trying to arrange system sales just like Western companies do. The latter sell not only a tractor but tools for tractors. “It would be a good idea to make the company a perfect example,” Vladimir Semashko said.

According to the Belarusian industry minister, MTZ-Tatarstan is supposed to become MTZ’s single point of entry in Russia in 2021. All the other trading houses will be reorganized by MTZ withdrawing from their capital. Other Belarusian industrial companies use the practice. The business direction of tractor manufacturing will be controlled by the parent company just the way it is done all over the world, the industry minister noted.

MTZ-Tatarstan is supposed to make a new lineup of tractors with their power varying from 40hp to 200hp as well as 300hp and 350h tractors. The tractors will be sold in Russia, CIS and non-CIS states taking into account participation in Russian export incentive programs.

MTZ-Tatarstan will also set up a central warehouse for spare parts with branches in Moscow and Novosibirsk. It is necessary for the sake of organizing centralized deliveries of spare parts and tractors across Russia without disproportionate prices. The prices will be the same in any part of Russia, Vitaly Vovk explained.

Apart from that, additional enterprises will be set up to make tools and accessories for tractors such as ploughs, trailers, seeders.

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