Belarus is always open to proposals for cooperation in business development, Minister of Anti-Monopoly Regulation and Trade (MART) Aleksei Bogdanov said at a meeting with representatives of Italian business on 26 May, BelTA learned from the MART press service. The parties discussed cooperation between Belarus and Italy in production and sale of food products made of Belarusian raw materials using Italian technologies and recipes, investment in restaurant business, joint projects in...

The trade between Belarus and China amounted to $1.2 billion in the first quarter of 2022, Deputy Economy Minister Alesya Abramenko said at the sixth session of the commission on trade and economic cooperation of the Belarus-China intergovernmental cooperation committee. The meeting was held in a mixed format, BelTA learned from press service of the Economy Ministry. According to Alesya Abramenko, the trade between Belarus and China in the first quarter of 2022 was estimated at $1.2...

The government of Belarus supports the WHO's efforts to provide assistance to the civilian population of Ukraine, Belarus' Healthcare Minister Dmitry Pinevich said at the plenary session of the Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly, BelTA learned from the press service of the Healthcare Ministry. The minister noted that the government of Belarus supports the WHO's efforts to help Ukraine's civilians who found themselves in a difficult humanitarian situation in the country and abroad,...

A forum on trade in metal products will bring together over 150 representatives of the manufacturing sector and the trade industry of Russia and Belarus in the Belarusian city of Zhlobin, the press service of the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange (BUCE) told BelTA. The Belarusian-Russian business forum on production and consumption of ferrous and non-ferrous metals in the Republic of Belarus will take place at premises of the Belarusian steel mill BMZ. The forum is scheduled...

Enterprises run by the Belarusian timber, woodworking, pulp and paper industry concern Bellesbumprom increased their export to Azerbaijan by over 30% in Q1 2022, Bellesbumprom's press service told BelTA. Bellesbumprom shipped $14.6 million worth of merchandise to Azerbaijan in 2021, 108.2% as against 2020. In Q1 2022 the export growth rate amounted to 130.8% year-on-year. Bellesbumprom exported $2.7 million worth of fiberboards and chipboards, plywood, timber, furniture, paper,...