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This directive was introduced by the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.
The state programme, Promoting Foreign Economic Activity, shall be implemented between 2013 and 2018. This programme is aimed at strengthening Russia’s position in the world economy, improving the quality parameters of foreign economic activity, and increasing its practical contribution to the modernisation of the economy.
The state programme is to accomplish the objectives in six sub-programmes:
- addressing foreign economic activity priorities in the process of international economic cooperation;
- forming the Eurasian Economic Union;
- creating a national system to support foreign economic activity;
- improving the state regulation system related to foreign economic activity;
- improving customs activities;
- developing a system of checkpoints on the Russian Federation’s borders to assist foreign economic activity.
The state programme uses the following target indicators to track the progress of these strategic goals and the objectives set in the programme:
- export growth rates as a whole;
- export growth rates without energy commodities;
- share of machines, equipment and transport vehicles in exports;
- export commodity diversification ratio;
- rate of growth of the number of exporting organisations (without individual businessmen);
- rate of growth of mutual trade in non-energy goods between member-countries of the Customs Union;
- Russia’s place in the leading international ratings with regard to evaluating the quality and efficiency of the regulatory environment and administration of the law in the sphere of foreign economic activity.
The implementation of the state programme during the period from 2013 to 2018 will make it possible to achieve the following results:
- increase by 50% the volume of commodity exports, including the export of non-energy goods by 60%, thus enabling Russia to become established as one of the top ten world exporters;
- slowing the trend towards the reduction of the share of machine, equipment and transport vehicle exports and achieving a 10% annual growth of deliveries in this group by mid-period;
- achieving a level of commodity diversification export comparable with the same indicators typical of developed countries with a high share of the raw material sector;
- at least doubling the number of exporting organisations (not fewer than one exporting organisation per 100 registered organisations);
- increasing by 80%-90% the value of mutual trade in non-energy goods between member countries of the Customs Union, which will create the material prerequisites for further integration;
- considerably enhancing Russia’s standing (joining the top 20 countries) in the World Bank and World Economic Forum ratings with regard to quality and efficiency of the regulatory environment and administration of law in the area of foreign economic activity.
The overall amount of funding for the entire period of the state programme’s implementation will be 422 billion roubles (in prices of respective years).