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body parts, soul, spirit, answers to these and other questions in spiritual educational projects on belarus 24 tv channel. good evening. this is the economic environment for belarus , one of the satellite tv channel belarus 24 , investments, exports, import substitution and development of high-tech industries , i just listed the key goals of creating free economic zones in belarus today we will figure out how they are implemented. what preferences are provided and how justified are they? what contribution do residents make to the socio-economic development of our country do they manage to diversify markets quickly rebuild supply chains and replace imports, thereby strengthening

the economic sovereignty of belarus as our president stressed , you have to pay for independence, are free economic zones ready to beat sanctions cards our enemies. let's figure it out. today we have experts in the studio who are well versed in the functioning of free economic zones olesya abramenko deputy minister of economy of belarus valentin boyko member of the standing committee on economy, budget and finance councils of the republic of the national assembly of belarus founder of conte spa anatoly buben head of administration of the free economic zone, minsk dear guests. good evening. well, i propose to explain

to our viewers, what is a free economic zone and what are the goals of the state and its creation? if possible, i means what is sex, yes, this is the territory in which the investor implements his investment project with certain requirements that the state imposes on him and special preferential conditions for this project to be valid. well, it was easy to implement. that is, these are some taxes yes taxes, as well as a regime. that is, this is some kind of territory correctly, for which the state establishes special economic regimes yes , tax customs, and why is the state doing this? what goals are pursued here well in order to create export-oriented enterprises,

import-substituting enterprises in order to develop regions, because we have connections located on the territory of all regions. yes , so that they develop in the same way, that is, in contrast to, say, special zones for the state. this is to attract an investor so that some new enterprises bring new movements into our economy. today , the main goal is import substitution, then the investments that come. they should be sent, again for export, that is export-oriented enterprise hence the taxes are forgiven if there is an export from these enterprises. well, and most importantly, the territory in which this enterprise can be located is endowed with such a special legal status, where you do not have to pay land tax real estate tax income tax does not have to be paid , this and easy entry conditions. again

, provided for and investor or new. uh, educated enterprise allocated land without auction free only free come in and work, that is, this is a plus. uh-huh for any investor. the main idea to have a business plan idea. come to us an application and literally within a week. you get a building plot for your business. now, if we open textbooks on economics, yes, on various economic disciplines or scientific literature. we will see that, as a rule, such territories are called special economic zones. here. free economic zone, which is enshrined in the legislation of belarus and a special economic zone. eh, there is, uh, differences or are identical categories one and the same and free and special zone. we probably don't have such a special zone. it is

at this time on orsha the great stone, then indeed the legislation imposes slightly different conditions on them than in free economic zones and in terms of the management structure, that is, the free economic zone. some things are done at the expense of the budget, for example, the creation of infrastructure. and there e. well, everything, this is the administration is a state enterprise, in unlike the times of orsha or the great stone, where the management structure is a little different, but uh, a free economic zone. e, the principle of complexity is being implemented, that is , the requirements that production be, for example, necessarily high-tech or necessarily related to some industry. no, that is, a resident investor can engage in practically any type of activity that does not contradict our legislation, yes unlike, for example, such special economic zones as a high-tech park. yes, that is, it is a functional, special zone where activities are clearly defined, or even, uh,

the great stone. this is also a special economic zone, where there are certain requirements for the level of manufacturability of production. that's right. yes, our free economic zones are all complex. that is, indeed. they can implement the types of activities of various ugus, but if we focus on preferences, here are the preferential regimes that are provided by the resident. now, if it’s so complex, anatoly anatolyevich has already noted certain tax preferences. but if you systematize them. what benefits does a resident receive, being a part of a free economic zone, a plot is provided without an auction and without payment. this is probably the most expensive, and today in minsk there is 1 hectare of registered land, worth a million dollars , people get it for free further for their vision of further business. we need to buy some equipment to bring. e

from abroad machine tools and other parts there for business luck. this opens a free customs zone in this territory, where already a registered resident imports everything duty-free without customs payments and without vat , that is, please, everything is open for business, that is, preferential customs treatment. this is how we make a deal. so an investment contract. this is three e years, if 500,000 euros are invested for 5 years. we can make a $1 million innovation deal with just the answer, if there is a five million dollar business plan. we give a person the right to a plot, arrange to organize your production and work. here are all the payments are not charged. but these are serious preferences beyond income tax. uh, the person doesn't pay income tax either. this is also a large part of tax revenue. and if he

has an export after the expiration of the dormant period of five years and he exports, then the income tax is no longer levied on land tax on real estate. well, the interest of investors is understandable, but why does the state create such hothouse conditions. so what does it stimulate in this way? do you think these are needed in my case, if we, for example, are a company there, which owns a my family account in grodny and probably became the third resident in the city. grodno i was really looking forward to the opening of this zone of free economic hardship, grodno invest, yes, yes, and in general, well, after many years and in that period, i also saw it. so no creation at all. these conditions without residency in the free economic zone, i admit with a high degree of probability that our company could not take place at all, because at that moment, in addition to the benefits

that we received, we received unconditionally the opportunity to take a certain market share in the market of the republic of belarus and the russian federation as a whole in the post-soviet space, if these benefits were not available, we would not be able to compete with those major players who at that time worked in the post-soviet space. i don’t know how soft it is to even pick up a word, but in general, they did not always operate in a legal regime and it was possible to compete with them. under the only condition - it is being. uh and becoming a resident becoming so years have been a resident of the free economic zone. yes, the two thousandth, probably already, as it were, we started a little later. yes, but it came. this is a big impetus for development in belarus as a whole, there are six free economic zones, one in each e, in each regional center, including the city of minsk , right, and we were getting ready for the transfer. we were wondering, but what kind of contribution does our free economic

zones provide to the socio-economic development of our country. and then we found information that, as a result work last year, their contribution to the formation of the main macroeconomic indicators is as follows, that is, the head domestic product is 5.6%, that is, the contribution, a, to the volume of industrial production is 18% and investment in fixed assets is four whole 3/10%. a. how free economic zones are developing today in difficult geopolitical conditions veronica is in the context section, let's see. ses is a convenient and effective economic tool that came to this conclusion on different continents. a few numbers to back it up only over the past 20 years, free economic zones in the world have increased by 6 times , for comparison, the ninety-eighth year of their order is about 900, 2018 is already 5.400. about 500 more three

zones are expected to open their doors to investors in the coming years. most of them in asian countries in belarus looked closely at such a mechanism almost 30 years ago, the first ussr was created in march 1996, this is a free economic zone, brest after 2 years such spaces appeared in minsk gomel, over the next 4 years vitebsk mogilev was created and grodno investor in total in belarus six free zones, in which 427 residents are registered according to statistics at the beginning of the year, the largest ses stolichnaya more than 100 companies profile of this economic zone metal engineering and woodworking building materials and electronics for the entire period. the third sex exported products worth more than 15 billion dollars over 20 years. grodno invest has become a key platform for business development in the grodno region 77 residents. ses form a quarter of the total production of the regions more than 40% of exports 22,000 people

works at enterprises from brest, the geography of exports includes 70 countries of the world, last year alone they sold goods worth billions of dollars, gomel raton took 62 residents from 15 countries among them and a gross-growing enterprise of the region. if you look at the dynamics of work, then the foreign trade turnover increased over the past year by almost 8%, a new resident replenished with vitebsk just a month ago. there will earn, import-substituting production for the processing of fish. last year, the status of president. they got seven more. total today , 58 companies are implementing their projects on the territory of the site, the smallest economic zone in terms of the number of residents is the mogilev site of 14 countries, which, of course, still need to be able to use. les nikolaevna, we heard in the story that the first free economic zone in our country will be. uh. this is how free economic zones work in belarus, here is

the ministry of economy, how they evaluate their work, how they evaluate their contribution to the economy of our country - this is an effective tool. well quite fair in the beginning brought in figure about, uh, what kind of contribution we have here residents of the ses yes, the gdp is absolutely correct figures. uh, what to add yes, that exports account for about a quarter of all republican exports of goods, and also we have foreign investment, too, about a quarter. in addition, of course, such residents are heard from such as lute corona spaniard, santa brand. that is, these are all e enterprises that are residents of the ss and are really without provision. here such a peripheral preferential regime, probably, uh, it was more difficult implement these projects. regarding the fact that for many years, for more than 20 years , such a preferential regime that we have developed, and more than 12 billion dollars

of investments were invested by the residents of the ss and that it exceeds approximately twice from the beginning of the initial amount of the declared investments. in addition, i would like to add that what the state expects, of course, expects employment. yes, creating new jobs. well, uh, of course, all conditions support yes, s-consider how much expenses that are spent by the budget on free economic zones. yes, how effectively they are used and how effective they are. these free economic zones and these expenses are two times lower than the revenues that the state receives from free economic zones, according to our calculations valentinovich please tell me, what did you proceed from when you entered the free economic zone? the zone, that is, what factors were decisive for you, these are preferences, these are tax and customs benefits. oh i'm a little talked about it. probably in the first place.

it was an opportunity, having received certain benefits from the state, to become more competitive, or even competitive in the post-soviet space in comparison with other players in the industry that we entered and began to develop. well, definitely. uh, the important factor is that residency is in a free economic zone. it gave confidence in the future and a certain perspective in terms of development even after we registered. in general, well, all efforts have been focused on investing work investing work to expand on the development of the development on the don't know, conquering the market, shelf share and so on. uh-huh and it certainly gave its results. e, anatoly anatolyevich, please tell me, here you are, as the head of the administration of the free economic zone, minsk, these are the preferences

that the state provides to residents. they are in demand today. what is the dynamics , e, the number of residents in your e free economic zone, which you lead, is growing or decreasing, which means statistics? today we already have more than a hundred residents of work, uh, in our zone of economic freedom, it is we who occupy the site. e volume. 2,650 hectares of which another 600 hectares. we have free. this is so that our viewers think and have the opportunity to come to us and become a resident. there are sites, both in minsk and in the minsk region. this is zhodino molodechno rice and fanipol. therefore, we invite, uh, enterprises, people with ideas who are ready to participate in the construction of some factories factories and the number of residents. it would

increase even more exponentially, but we conclude an agreement with a resident and monitor the implementation of this agreement. some not entirely conscientious e-residents, coming to us to put our participation. they take a site for a free economic zone, since it is allocated free of charge and then it is not equipped and developed, that is, they are not necessarily fulfilled under the contract. yes several years of default. we exclude such unscrupulous people from the list of residents. eh, at first glance who came with good intentions. such cases, they are isolated, they are masks, of course, therefore we have, so to speak, the number of residents who come annually. here are six new residents last year. we have appeared with a declared investment of more than four million dollars. i hope that they will become our

residents, and therefore enjoy such benefits. i think anyone would like to become a resident, but today many still don't know it's to assume that the state provides such benefits, everyone asks, where the dog is buried, where some stone. uh, a lot of people will learn about these opportunities and perhaps make appropriate decisions, but before it was called today about how much investment should be invested there , depending on how much the investment agreement will be concluded, of course, the state pays great attention to ensuring that these projects were aimed at the socio-economic development of the region ; the projects were import-substituting for export- oriented, so that, as we have already said, new jobs were created. well busy and etc. but this threshold is the same in all free economic zones. i mean the threshold for the amount of investment. yes

, these are the same, of course, 500 for 3 years 1,000 euros and five and 5 years for a million euros, if you look at the work of the free economic zone through the eyes of business. these are the conditions, apart from these preferential regimes. more important, that is, what is it this is the presence of industrial engineering infrastructure there. uh, land plots, that is, what is important for business. well, the most important issue for business is probably personnel that, for example, the general experience of free economic zones. this is not some kind of invention. in our country, this is, in general, well, as they have already said, practice is everywhere all over the world, for example, in sicily, if we say about italy. yes, there are huge state benefits created, money gives, and so on, there is no one to work. no one from the north of italy to the south will go there to live and work, therefore, in general, the dignity of belarus lies in the fact that

we have the mentality of people. in general, this is a huge plus, so to speak, and we have personnel who can work in different industries undoubtedly. there are many questions many complexities of people. we need to teach specialists in others to attract and adopt experience, but on the whole, so to speak, we have good people. this is a great advantage of our country as a whole. now, if we are talking about development, all the benefits that are given unconditionally, they are very important, very important, and not only here from the point of view , for a business to earn more or less, in general, the question is not about money and not about the amount of earnings, the question is that free the zone gives the opportunity, and then, so to speak, the management of the company, there are shareholders, depending on what kind of policy they have and how they manage this process and will determine their success or failure, and the state creates conditions that potentially provide an opportunity for development and success on supply restrictions, yes for your residents there raw materials. and

you may, uh, need to restore and increase your exports. but uh, you manage to cope with these parties, the sanctions pressure was especially noticeable. this is the closure of borders, logistics reconfiguration of all flows and many slowed down their exports a little, then the supply of components of some raw materials for goods was impossible to be purchased by the european union, but this literally such a shock passed within two to three months, and all flows were adjusted. and today we, uh, see and have a direct conversation with our residents. that is , such special problems as were a year ago, they no longer exist, they self-liquidated. and today the stable operation of enterprises. we see it, uh, the growth of wages, the growth of exports

today in minsk, the growth of exports is 150%. today for last year. we have doubled exports to china and one and a half times to russia, that is, import substitution. today, we have already come to 50% of the products that are produced by the ses enterprise, these are import-substituting products, and in two-twenty-seven years we are already planning to reach 70% of imperial-substituting products, so all these nuances with the help of the government, when we remember, uh, these transitions created uh, centers where the trucks could intertwine. well, today the traffic. let it e became a little more expensive, the time for the implementation of transportation became more there by a few. days, but everything works, as it worked in the old days, therefore, the sanctions only, probably, strengthened the vector, they set the development of another

hardened. yes, well, and forced to love their own. can we summarize to anatoly anatolyevich that the free economic zone, minsk successfully overcomes the sanctions restrictions. well, i can say that we have already overcome it, because we have certain individuals who communicate with our residents almost every day on a weekly basis. we collect such sanctions issues. we no longer present day. do not know the forest nikolaevna in other free economic zones, the situation. the same situation is the same indeed. uh, last year i had to work often in manual mode, that is, we were constantly in touch with all territories. so to speak and when problems arose, they tried to understand how systemic and help. resolve the situations

that were and speak of this from the improvement of the situation export budget balance. we have positive after the key priorities of economic development are import substitution and increasing the share of innovative production. it is not the first year that the head of state has been guiding us towards this, and the events of recent years show that the strategy has been correctly defined. we don't have to depend. these are the whims of the western political elites who strive to strangle us economically, and our president once again reminded us of this during his message to the belarusian people and the national assembly. let's listen. this is a matter of national security import substitution. there is a wide field for the implementation of the most daring ideas of belarusian scientists. look at those industries somewhere, we understood long ago that we have an increase in exports and the saturation of our market for high-quality goods. last year. we have produced

import-substituting products worth over $27 billion this year. we can add 10%. there would be a desire. at the same time, we are not just talking about import substitution, but the creation of whole science-intensive areas. this is the intellectual capital of the country of production new workers places and products with high added value. lesya nikolaevna import substitution is under special control in the ministry of economy of our country. do you see the potential of free economic zones in building up import-substituting industries , of course. anatoly anatolyevich has already confirmed this with figures. uh, this statement is about participation in the free economic zone in the process of import substitution, i can also say that, given the fact that in the twenty- second year at the beginning of the twenty-third year

35 new residents were registered 32 of them - these are russian and belarusian companies, belarusian investors, that is , really those companies that can create an additional share in import-substituting projects , engineering projects, and furniture production also in the industry. that is a serious potential. yes, for example, yes, of course, of course. today i am an investor, that is, residents even between. they exchange some component parts, paints, labels and what they used to buy abroad, especially in europe, new cooperative partnerships are being formed. connections. yes, everyone knows each other and understands, and today even what they have not seen in their own tray, they have examined and use those goods that are produced nearby behind the fence, maybe even a neighbor no longer need to bring from abroad. but, if we are talking about the conditions for the functioning of free

economic zones, well, probably everything cannot be perfect, there are always some nuances aspects that need to be improved. uh, well, that's how life usually works. here is valentin valentinovich in your opinion, and a successful senator entrepreneur, if at present time, here are the legal norms that regulate the work of free economic zones in our country, uh, which require improvement. maybe they are not efficient enough. maybe something needs to be abandoned already, maybe something new needs to be introduced here. what do you think? well, in general, probably, if we approach this issue. hmm well, about the advantages of free economic zones. we have already spoken and everyone understands what to say. they are a great achievement. why do we have freedom economic zones in the country? well, then as in any process, any process

can be improved by 20%. this is probably why the legislators and, probably, the head of free economic zones and residents should not stop there , certainly, so to speak, take the initiative and look around and in general. well, development does not stand still, and it is very important that , in general, the free economic zones are created not only by our country, but also by our closest neighbors, so we must compare ourselves, probably, with the conditions that we have and those peripheries, which create other states with whom we compete in other words in the market. and if we have more of these advantages, then we, as a country, will receive additional advantages. come on , the minsk and brest zones do not compete. we probably compete either with kaliningrad or with nizhny novgorod, or with others, so to speak, with zones i don’t know in shanghai, so what is there and what we have for external investors, internal, of course. in my

opinion, it should, and now, if this one, as a result of this transfer, there are still domestic investors, or entrepreneurs will hear certain, so to speak, pluses that they did not know about and will come and become residents, then, of course, they are the state from this. as soon as you and your colleagues in the council of the republic win, you may see some problematic issues that require attention. e officials, e-e parliamentarians of the administration of free economic zones, or in general this system works steadily. now the whole system works quite stable. but probably the decision, if any and they are needed, should be made, just as quickly as possible. yes i don't have a 5 year business plan. now the planning horizon, as some of my colleagues said , 15 minutes to walk to the tv and see what news has changed and who will quickly make a decision, quickly conclude a contract, adapt, or

adapt, or, as it were, maneuver. here in these new conditions. he can either survive, and the question is often not only about success, the question can also become survival in a complex world. and the preservation of the work of local places, and the preservation of these investments that are. well, that's a plus. naturally, about development, because despite all the achievements that were last year. well, i would appreciate it, uh, we were very strongly supported by two states. this is belarus and russia due to the fact that there was a favorable exchange rate for all producers for the economy, so we have gross indicators that have grown, in addition to the natural general development of industry and production. but life stands still, and we do not know what challenges will come to us today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, therefore, in any case , we must not relax. gotta be ready for new challenges. but in general, well, the european states and the world they are not interested in

our development. naturally, therefore, these sanctions and all the pressure on our countries. it does not seem to improve our lives, but only complicates, but nonetheless. we are coping well with these issues anatoly anatolyevich please tell us what problems residents and administrations of free economic zones face most often, if we systematize them, what are these problematic aspects, what needs attention? well today when the residence enters with its business plan. this is the first thing that he requires from us of engineering transport infrastructure, that there be gas , electricity, and a road. in order to have water or water , there is no gas in addition to the power supply, or we are still sorting out the railway crossing there today, so, uh, we are trying to create

an infrastructure so that the resident has already entered the ready site. and he could freely realize his idea, his business plan, that is, residents of such e systemic chronic. if you say no, that is, they are all of such a local nature. they have been solved for 25 years. we are functioning, so for 25 years there are only questions. well, the state sees these issues. they decide. today. they are instantly resolved practically here within a week laws are passed. not that the resolution is written during the day, therefore, if there is a body like me and our president says, where are you writing us what problems, we will initiate further resolution of this issue from our side, but no questions today. the only thing.

i say, we need infrastructure, uh, 2,650 hectares of which another 650 hectares are free. where we are developing infrastructure today until 1927, there are colossal injections and gas roads, energy distribution substations. energy, water, everything will be there. uh, arranged for new residents in a couple of years. but we were wondering what uh, a free economic zone looks like. what do its residents do and we looked into one of the free economic zones of our country. and what we saw there: robots, innovations and capacious production 92 million dollars of investments were brought last year by new residents of the free economic zone, brest , despite the difficult foreign political situation , the enterprises found new export corridors and

added to the supply of products abroad. today, among the participants of the free economic zone there are companies that produce goods that have no analogues, so the stages of production are often kept in the strictest confidence, what interests investors today and what belarusian business they are in ready to invest millions in our next story, please. this furniture decorates interiors from west to east. belarusian quality is trusted by the largest marketplaces and demanding consumers. this is a place of storage, sludge, raw materials that come from the supplier so that it can stand at a certain humidity at a certain temperature and then it can go to the production of an enterprise in the free economic zone brest, the company produces furniture in the middle price category, but all raw materials of the highest quality raw materials , which we see robots made of belarusian wood in the workshops and unique equipment for the country, for example, a line that allows you to glue wooden panels on

all four sides at the same time. this speeds up the production process by several times. a completely transparent cutter can see what is happening inside the machine . the picture is in production mode. this is cutting from chipboard to parts. here is this upset center. he is now engaged in precisely these new production facilities in addition to the old site launched. 2 a year ago, and it allowed us to increase the capacity for the new production, we used the old site of the plant, from the light tube a huge room was empty for several years, and today 160 people work here in just one shift, all of us will build to sell our furniture back, pure european standard of the possibility of this site, along with the old is 400.000 m². per month. we can cut chipboard . modern technologies and in the marketing of the company, each collection of furniture is first

tested on trading floors and only then they are launched into mass production, germany poland hungary serbia russia-latvia georgia is still far from a complete list of strange exporters. this is about quality requirements. they are basically the same. uh, our furniture standard. he's probably, uh, in all these uh strange ways, the toughest, that's why. furniture, which is produced according to the standard that is accepted in our republic of belarus, it fully meets their requirements, a unique, unparalleled technology was invented in the steam company, this is another resident of the free economic zone company with foreign capital produces materials and equipment for marking. unmanned road printers are made here. they work in automatic mode and allow you to apply paint with millimeter accuracy, and for quality control. the company has its own testing laboratory. production capacity, rather big for 2 days. here they can cover the annual demand of a millionth

city. 80% of the products are sold to the russian market. the rest is bought in the usa more iran spain morocco and other far-flung countries abroad. now we are actively engaged in the promotion of our equipment in the european union market , thereby providing them with engines of the environmental class with h5. what is the main requirement in europe? at the moment, and also an important role is occupied by projects for the introduction of an e-electric drive in a road and road machine and in a marking machine. today, in the brest free economic zone, 75 residents, their products account for almost a third of all exports of the trimming region, a city that is located at the junction of european and eastern market is interesting for investors, but according to experts geopolitical position and favorable tax climate for today's investor. not important. first of all, of course, it is important . in addition to the preferential treatment of the professional

regime, it is also necessary to have qualified personnel who would be able to master modern technologies, science-intensive production and simply work, even in working specialties, like ordinary people. and if investors come to us, it means, uh, we create, uh, attractive conditions, and this confirm the numbers in the past. year all from brest came all new residents who brought investments of 90 2 million us dollars and big business invests not only in the industry, the youngest participant in the free economic zone, which opened this year a logistics company. lots of interesting productions. unfortunately, we couldn’t include all productions in the plot, but you must admit, well , interesting, unique and unfortunately, here are our viewers and people, for example, in my environment

, not everyone knows that many companies that are on hearing in our country. they turn out to be residents of free economic zones in our country. here's to our viewers. e, dear experts. here, let's give examples of e, known to belarusians by the enterprise