good evening are realized. what preferences are provided and how justified are they? what contribution do the residents make to the socio-economic that our president has to pay for independence ? are the free economic zones ready to beat the sanctions cards of our enemies? let's figure it out. today we have experts in our studio who are well versed in the functioning of free economic zones olesya abramenko deputy minister of economy of belarus valentin baiko member of the permanent commission on economics, budget and finance councils of the republic of the national assembly of belarus founder of the economic zone company, 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? well, i’ll start, if i may, i mean what is ses yes, this is the territory on which the investor implements his investment project with certain requirements that the state imposes on him and under special preferential conditions in order to this project was real. well, it was easy to implement it. so it's some kind of tax. uh, tax cuts, yes income taxes, as well as a simplified customs regime . that is, this is some kind of territory , 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 located in all areas. yes , so that they develop in the same way, that is, in contrast to, say, a special zone for the state. this is an investor's indulgence in order for some new enterprises to bring new movements into our economy. today , the main goal is import substitution, and then the investments that come. they should be directed, again, to export, that is , an export-oriented enterprise from here and taxes are forgiven if there is an export from these enterprises. well most importantly, the territory in which this enterprise can be located, it 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 pay this and easy entry conditions. again , provided for and investor or new. uh, an educated enterprise is allocated land without an auction for free, just freely enter 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 statement 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. uh, there are, uh, differences or are they identical categories, one

and the same and free and special zone. we probably don't have such a special zone. she if there is a great stone on orsha at that time, then indeed the legislation imposes slightly different conditions on them than in free economic zones and in terms of the management structure, that is, free economic zones. uh, some things are done with the budget, like building infrastructure. and there e. well, everything, this is the administration is a state enterprise, unlike the times. orsha great stone, where the management structure is a little different, but uh free economic zone. oh, it's being implemented. the principle of complexity, 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, this is such a functional, special zone, where the types of activities are clearly defined, or even, uh, the great stone. this is also a special economic a zone where there are certain requirements, although a site is provided as part of the free economic zone without an auction and without payment. this is probably the most expensive and today in minsk some lead. e from abroad machine tools and other parts there for business luck. this opens a free customs zone on this territory, where a resident is already registered, everything is imported duty-free, without customs duties and without vat , that is, please, for business, everything is open, that is, preference. customs regime, this is how we conclude an agreement, this is how investment agreement. this is three years, if 500,000 euros are invested and for 5 years we can

conclude an investment agreement for 1 million dollars only if there is a business plan for a million dollars for 5 years. we entitle the person the site. arrange to organize your production and work. all these payments are not charged. well, it's a serious preference further on the income tax. uh, a person also does not pay tax on the accustomed. this is also a large part of tax revenue. and if he has an export after the expiration of the innovation period of five years and he exports, then no further income tax is levied on land tax on real estate. well, the interest of investors is understandable, but why does the state create such typical conditions. so what does it stimulate in this way? what do you think in my case, if we, for example, have a company there that owns my family's account in grodny and probably became the third resident in the city. grodno i was really

looking forward to the opening of this free economic zone. yes, yes, and in general, well, after many years and in that period. i also saw. 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 certainly received the opportunity to take a certain market share of the market in the republic of belarus and in 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 for territory of the post-soviet space. i don't know how soft it is to even pick a word. well , in general, they did not always operate in a legal regime and it was possible to compete with them. under the only condition is being

and becoming a resident under the conditions of becoming a resident of the free economic zone in this way. well, the 2000s, probably already, as it were, we started a little later. yes, but it came. here 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 preparing for the transfer . it was interesting, but what kind of contribution do our free economic zones provide to the socio-economic development of our country. and now we found information that, based on the results of work last year, their contribution to the formation of the main macroeconomic indicators is as follows, that is, the head of the domestic product is 5.6%, that is, the contribution, and to the volume of industrial production 18% and investments in fixed assets four point three tenths of a percent, and how free economic zones are developing today in

difficult geopolitical conditions veronica as if under the heading context, let's see. ses is a convenient and effective economic tool that came to this conclusion on different continents. in confirmation of several figures , in the last 20 years alone, free economic zones in the world have increased by 6 times , for comparison, the ninety-eighth year of their order of 900 in 2018 is already 5.400. about 500 more free zones are expected to open their doors to investors in the coming years. most of them in the asian countries of belarus took a closer look at such a mechanism almost 30 years ago, the first ss was created in march of the ninety-sixth and the free economic zone, brest after 2 years such spaces appeared in minsk gomel over the next four years vitebsk mogilev and grozny investor were created in total six in belarus, the free zone of which 427 residents were registered according to statistics at the beginning of the year , the largest ss stolichnaya more than 100 companies

profile - is the economic zone of mechanical engineering, metals and woodworking building materials and electronics for the entire period. the third ss exported products for more than more than 15 billion dollars over 20 years grodno-invest has become a key platform for business development in the grodno region 70-7 ss presidents form a quarter of all regional production more than 40% of exports 22,000 people work at enterprises from brest geography of exports includes 70 countries of the world, only in the past sold goods worth billions of dollars, gomel raton took 62 residents from 15 countries among them and the region's gross-production enterprise. if you look at the dynamics of work, then foreign trade turnover increased over the past year by almost 8%, a new resident was replenished with vitebsk just a month ago soon. last year, import-substituting fish processing production will start working there, the status

of a resident. seven more received here. in total , 58 companies from 14 countries are implementing their projects on the site today. the smallest economic zone in terms of the number of residents is the mogilev site, 45 participants this year. and their replenishment of new residences will be engaged in the production of pvc and aluminum products, the demand for these products abroad in the world as a whole practically. every fourth of our goods for export was produced by a free economic zone. ses is a territory of great opportunities, 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 was created in brest in 1996. what is 27 years old? without a little? yes, it has passed, that is , enough time to be able to evaluate. uh, here, uh, how free

economic zones work in belarus, here is the ministry of economy, how they evaluate them work, as they evaluate their contribution to the economy of our country, this is an effective tool, well , quite rightly, at the beginning they gave figures about what kind of contribution we have residents of the ses yes to gdp absolutely correct numbers? what will he add? yes, exports account for about a quarter of the export of these goods from all republican ones , as well as direct foreign investment is also about the recipient. ss residents and indeed, without such a preferential preferential treatment, it would probably be more difficult to implement these projects regarding the fact that for many years, for more than 20 years , such a preferential treatment that we have developed, but was invested by ss residents more than 12 billion dollars

of investments and so that the zones of our country and what we saw there robots a false foreign policy situation, the enterprises found new export corridors and added products to the supply, which produce goods that have no analogues, so the stages of production are often kept in the strictest confidence, what investors are interested in today and what kind of belarusian business they are in. east and belarusian quality is trusted by the largest brands and demanding consumers. this is a place of storage that comes from a supplier for in order for it to survive when determining the brest economic zone, the company produces furniture in the middle price category, but from the highest quality raw materials, all the raw materials that we see are made of belarusian wood. yes, yes to the workshop 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

online picture is displayed on a separate monitor. cast chipboard for details. here is this upset center. he is now engaged in exactly this new production in addition to the old site launched 2 years ago, and it allowed to increase the number of empty ones. today , 160 people work here in just one shift. built to sell our furniture back to pure european standard square meters per month. we can saw chipboard and mdf modern technologies and in the marketing of the company every furniture collection first on the trading floors and tons of strange partners, as far as quality requirements are concerned, they are basically similar. uh, our furniture standard. it is probably, uh, in all these uh countries the most so, uh, which is accepted in our republic of belarus, it fully meets their requirements, a unique, unparalleled technology for instilling incentives in the company. this is another resident

free economic printers. they work in automatic mode and allow you to apply paint with millimeter accuracy, as well as for quality control. the company has its own testing laboratory. production capacity 80% of products are sold to the russian market. the rest is bought in the us more iran spain morocco and other foreign countries. now we are actively engaged in promotion in europe is the main requirement at the moment, and also an important role is occupied by implementation projects. e electric drive. uh garage road car, their products account for almost a third of all exports of the region, a city located at the junction of the european and eastern markets is interesting for investors, but according to the expert, it is important to have qualified personnel besides the preferential treatment of the professional regime, who would be able to master modern

technologies , high-tech production and ordinary people. and if investors come to us, it means, uh, we create, uh, attractive conditions, and this is confirmed by the numbers in the past year came all the new residents of the youngest participant in the free economic zone, which opened this year a logistics company. lots of interesting productions. unfortunately, but you will agree, well, interestingly unique. and unfortunately, here are our viewers and people, for example, in my environment, not everyone knows that many companies are for our viewers. e, dear experts. here, let's give examples of uh, known to uh, belarusian enterprises of the company of organizations that are residents. brest we also have a woodworking enterprise, eurodrive, which produce furniture, besides this. well, i'll say

stacker products there in our residents, and those people produce gate systems. there are already four factories. all aluminum, please, is produced at our zorko by our resident. therefore, well spectrum of their 100 enterprises, which we see in pharmacies, we see whether half of the medicines are produced again by our resident, who is from nikolaevna and residents of well-known residents of other free economic zones. he's the marble that everyone knows, they don't know not only in belarus still call furniture. yes, kitchens are made. yes, toys, in my opinion, yes, brest region. yes, the integral is the largest, a lot of enterprises in the form of state support, it turns out to a lot of eminent companies. here we believe that they are well done, they are, of course, well done, but also at the expense

of the state.