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The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan hosted working meetings with peers from other regions: Deputy Minister of Industry, Trade and Enterprise Development of the Novosibirsk Region Maksim Ostanin and Acting Deputy Minister of Industrial Policies of the Kirov Region Yekaterina Koroleva.

This week, Maksim Ostanin arrived in Tatarstan to share expertise in the retail sector. His special interest was the issue of rolling store operations in the republic. Travelling stores are points of non-stationary trade in remote and sparsely populated areas where there are no stationary grocery stores. Today, there are 185 rolling stores in Tatarstan, which serve about 895 remote and sparsely populated points.

Today, Deputy Minister Almaz Khusainov had a meeting with Yekaterina Koroleva. The representative of the Kirov Region Ministry of Industrial Policies was interested in the experience of implementing the Labour Productivity and Employment Support and International Cooperation and Exports national projects in Tatarstan.

Answering the guest’s questions, the experts of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan spoke about how interaction with industrial enterprises is being established in the republic to attract them for participation in national projects. The parties also discussed the republic’s expertise in cooperation between industrial enterprises and major state corporations.

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Deputy Minister Aleksey Savelchev met today with representative of the Technological Sovereignty Exports Association Mirjalol Khusanov.

The introductory meeting was held at a working level, the participants discussed the potential for cooperation between the Association and companies in Tatarstan.

Mirjalol Khusanov is responsible for the development of foreign projects in the Association. At the meeting, he spoke in detail about the features of this community.

According to him, the Association represents the “second step” of ensuring the entry of Russian manufacturers of high-value-added goods and services to the international market.

The Association is working to create centres of Russian technology as points of continuous presence of Russia’s companies and universities, channels for science and technology exports and imports of talent in foreign countries. Such centres are already being created in Vietnam and Turkey and are scheduled in Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, South Africa, the UAE, and the CIS countries.

Aleksey Savelchev emphasised that the Association’s activities are of interest to industrial enterprises in Tatarstan, both for exporting their goods and services, and for obtaining new knowledge and technology from foreign partners.

Russian exporters have an opportunity to trumpet their successes at the All-Russian Exporter of the Year Award in International Cooperation and Exports.

The main objectives of the Award are to replicate the success stories of Russian business abroad, to support and develop the export business in Russia, and to share the best practices in international trade.

The Award was initiated as part of the International Cooperation and Exports national project. On May 8, 2019, the Award Regulation was approved by the Resolution of the Russian Government.

The Award organiser is the Russian Export Centre, a government-run authority for the support of non-resource exports. Award applicants can be both large enterprises and small or medium-sized businesses (SMEs).

The results of the Award’s national finals will be announced in Moscow on November 14, 2019 as part of the Made in Russia International Exports Forum with the participation of Russia’s top officials.

You can find the application deadlines for each of the federal districts and apply for free participation in the competition for the Exporter of the Year Award on the website of the Russian Export Centre at https://www.exportcenter.ru/awards.

Today, Minister Karimov held a meeting with representatives of AO TEMPO, with its main topic focused on government support measures for production in Tatarstan.

The parties discussed issues of informing enterprises about existing support measures, as well as the opportunities of participation in federal and regional support programmes in 2019-2022, including the federal industrial park support programme.

The support of exporters in Russia is carried out within the framework of the national project titled “International Cooperation and Exports”. The lead agency for enterprises in Tatarstan is the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade.

The representative of the Tatarstan Ministry of Economy also informed TEMPO about measures to support small and medium-sized businesses, which include financial, property, information, and consulting support through infrastructure facilities. These activities are carried out within the framework of the national project titled “SMEs and Support for Individual Entrepreneurial Initiatives”.

TEMPO Holding is a group of companies that have developed and are producing a wide range of products in various areas. Each enterprise of the holding company is independent and manufactures products for various sectors of the economy: electrical products, automotive components, steel structures, and much more.

A meeting was held today at the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade on the issue of foreign economic activities for OOO PC Poligran. The company manufactures polymer compositions for the Russia’s cable industry.

The subject of the meeting was potential exports of PC Poligran products to Uzbekistan. Experts from the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Tatarstan Centre for the Support of Exports, and the Tatarstan Chamber of Commerce and Industry clarified the issues of obtaining a ST-1 certificate confirming the goods’ country of origin, filling a customs declaration for exporting products to Uzbekistan, as well as executing proper legal documents and providing commodity passport.

The support of exporters in Tatarstan, including new ones, is provided within the framework of the regional project titled “Systemic Measures for the Development of International Cooperation and Exports”, which is part of the International Cooperation and Exports national project The project provides for informing enterprises about support measures rendered by the Russian Exports Centre and ensuring interaction with Tatarstan’s representative offices for promoting exports.

The ST-1 certificate or certificate of origin is a document specifying the country of manufacture of the goods moved across the border. This certificate is required at customs and exempts goods from customs taxes and duties (in whole or in part).