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A delegation from the Federal State of Bavaria (Germany) will arrive on a working visit to the Republic of Tatarstan. The delegation will be headed by Hubert Aiwanger, Bavarian State Minister of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy and Deputy Bavarian Prime Minister.

The business community in Bavaria has noted certain positive changes and good potential for bilateral cooperation, despite the uneasy economic and political framework conditions. The Bavarian delegation comprises officials, representatives of industrial authorities, as well as managers and experts from companies.

The visit’s programme will begin on October 22, Tuesday, with a meeting with Prime Minister of Tatarstan Aleksey Pesoshin.

The key event for the guests will be the Tatarstan-Bavaria Economic Forum to be held on October 22, 2019 in the Tolstoy Hall of the Korston Hotel and Mall at 10.30. From Tatarstan, the forum will be attended by Minister of Industry and Trade Albert Karimov, officials and representatives of republic’s industrial enterprises and universities. The forum programme includes a presentation of the investment and industrial potential in Tatarstan, a case study on cooperation experience with German partners, and speeches by members of the Bavarian delegation. Later, representatives of German and Tatarstan business communities will be able to discuss issues of their interest in the format of B2B meetings.

In the first half of 2019, the foreign trade turnover between Tatarstan and Germany amounted to USD 774.2 million.

Today, the delegation from Tatarstan headed by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov is on a visit to Uzbekistan.

The programme began with a visit to the Angren Special Economic Zone, where a meeting was held with directors of the Birinci Rezinotekhnika Zavodi and the Tashkent Agricultural Machinery Plant (TQXTZ). In addition, a guided tour to the production sites was organised for the guests.

An important event within the visit was the first meeting of the working group for cooperation development between Tatarstan and Uzbekistan. The main issue of the meeting is a discussion of the areas of mutually beneficial cooperation between the two regions in such fields as engineering, petrochemicals, IT, digital technologies, as well as professional education.

At the end of the meeting, the co-chairs of the working group, Albert Karimov and Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan Elyor Ganiev, signed a document approving the composition of the joint working group.

In addition, POZIS and the Uzbekistan Association of Manufacturers and Suppliers of Medical Equipment signed a Memorandum of Intent.

The first working day ended at the International Business Centre, where B2B meetings were held with companies’ representatives from Tatarstan and Uzbekistan.

Today, an economic business forum was held at the Tatarstan Chamber of Commerce and Industry with the participation of the Eastern Black Sea Exporters Association of Turkey (DKİB).

At the forum, a plenary session was held, where representatives of the Turkish side made a presentation of the Eastern Black Sea region of Turkey.

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan German Lerner made a welcoming speech on behalf of the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade. He noted the importance of Tatarstan-Turkish cooperation and expressed readiness for the further development of mutually beneficial trade and economic relations.

The forum also hosted business meetings and bilateral negotiations with representatives of Turkish companies engaged in various activities, such as manufacturers of automotive equipment, furniture products, construction contractors, manufacturers of copper, zinc, and lead products, and others.

The Eastern Black Sea Exporters Association (DKİB) was established in 1998 in Trabzon to support enterprises in the region in promoting their products to foreign markets. More than 2,000 companies are members of the Association. The main sectors of the companies’ activities are the production of building materials, agriculture, food industry, mining and processing of minerals.

Today, Naberezhnye Chelny hosted the Hyundai Supplier Day. The event was organised by the Tatarstan Mechanical Engineering Cluster jointly with the Samara Region Automotive Industry Cluster, with the support from the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade.

As part of the Hyundai Supplier Day, an exhibition took place dedicated to the activities of enterprises and their products.

At the event, presentations of Hyundai and company’s first-tier suppliers were made, B2B meetings with potential suppliers were held, and visits to production sites of Tatarstan suppliers were arranged.

The event was attended by executives and employees from the auto component procurement department at Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Rus, representatives of the first-tier Hyundai suppliers (Sejong, Daewon, NVH, Donghee, Mobis, Sungwoo, Yura, Doowon, Peterform, Hanil) localised in Russia, as well as representatives of the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade.

To date, Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Rus is the second largest manufacturer of passenger cars in the Russian Federation after Avtovaz. In 2018, more than 235,000 vehicles left the assembly line of its plant in St. Petersburg.