Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Economy of the Republic of Tatarstan Midhat Shagiakhmetov told about this today at a briefing on online commerce and measures to support online sellers.
The Minister of Economy stressed that in the conditions of sanctions pressure, an important direction for the development of small and medium-sized businesses is the expansion of sales markets and channels for the sale of their products, including through the development of electronic commerce.
Midhat Shagiakhmetov recalled that one of the first sites in the country, the Order.RF, operates in the republic for these purposes. On its basis, the Republican Marketing Center (RMC) has been created, which provides businesses with additional channels for selling products at the republican level and in the markets of other subjects of Russia.
So, over the past year, about 4.5 thousand Tatarstan suppliers, thanks to the resources of the Republican Marketing Center, received revenue in the amount of over 193 billion rubles.
The RMC allows entrepreneurs to participate in deliveries for large enterprises, including import-substituting products, based on the analysis of cooperative relations between commodity producers.
For this purpose, an Import Substitution Center has been created on the basis of the RMC, which allows enterprises of the republic to replace products previously purchased from unfriendly countries.
"In total, the catalog includes more than 300 thousand nomenclatures of import-substituting products. The work on filling the catalogues of import-substituting products, as well as attracting entrepreneurs to the resources of the RMC continues," the Minister of Economy of Tatarstan noted.
For the further development of the RMC, this year it is planned to increase orders due to the proposals of resource-supplying organizations of the Republic of Tatarstan, as well as to continue free training in sales skills in the RMC of new representatives of SMEs of the republic.