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The 4th International specialized exhibition
IMPORT SUBSTITUTION

The 4th International specialized Import Substitution exhibition will be held September 11 through 13, 2018 in Crocus Expo following the regulation of the Government of the Russian Federation, with official support of the Government of the Russian Federation, the Ministry for Trade and Industry of the Russian Federation and also with assistance of other federal executive power bodies and governmental organizations.

The project demonstrates the development of the capacity of domestic enterprises and organizations, the results of their activities in various industries of economy and international promotion. The exhibition contributes to the development and strengthening of cross-industry ties between companies, to improvement of quality of products, decrease in dependence of the Russian economy on import goods and services.

The main goal of the event is rendering comprehensive assistance to domestic manufacturers in development and sales of goods and services, their promotion in the internal and world markets, search of business partners, establishment of new sales channels.

This year more than 250 companies from Russia (Moscow and the Moscow region, Yekaterinburg, the Vologda, Kursk, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Ryazan, Samara, Omsk, Irkutsk regions, the Republics of Ingushetia, Mari El, Udmurtia, Crimea and etc.) will display the best samples of high-quality products from the most different fields of the industry on the space of 8 000 sq m of an exposition.

• Machine-tool building
• Metallurgy
• Fuel and energy complex
• Information technologies
• Light industry
• Science
• Medicine and pharmaceutics
• Agro-industrial complex
• Food industry
• and many others

Large production enterprises including Rostec, KAMAZ, AVTOROS and others will participate in the exhibition. Successful product samples and developments of regional producers will be demonstrated at collective stands among which a large-scale exposition Made in Moscow (more than 16 brands!) initiated and organized by the Moscow Export Centre.

The 2nd National Forum Import Substitution will become the headliner of the business program. The work of the forum is aimed at coordination of activities and effective dialogue of federal executive bodies, executive bodies of territorial subjects of the Russian Federation and business community for the purpose of development of offers for acceleration of implementation of industry import substitution programs.

Representatives of the government, production enterprises, scientific organizations will not only discuss progress in production and implementation of competitive import-substituting goods and services, but will also determine subsequent plans promoting increase of production capacity and release of high-quality domestic production.

The business program of the project features plenary sessions, strategic sessions, round table talks, professional business audience and more than 30 events in 2 days.

The Import Substitution project contributes to the development and strengthening of cross-industry communications of entities and decrease in dependence of the Russian economy on imported goods and services.