Import substitution, strengthening of industrial cooperation, trade growth. The efforts of Belarus and the Sverdlovsk region of Russia are aimed at this. Prospects for cooperation were discussed today in Minsk at a meeting of the working group. The parties are counting on deepening cooperation in the machine tool industry. Almost the entire Belarusian industry will be represented at the international exhibition Innoprom-2023 in Yekaterinburg. This is the main industrial, trade and export platform in Russia, which annually gathers thousands of participants from different countries. Belarus will act as a partner for the first time.