In September 12, 2013 in World Trade Center Nizhny Novgorod had been organized the workshop «Strategy of success and tactics of protecting the interests of national producers under the WTO rules. Identifying characteristic for the Nizhny Novgorod region»

Workshop had been organized by Center of the export potential of Nizhny Novgorod region and World Trade Centre Nizhny Novgorod.
The speakers were the leading Russian experts in the WTO: Roman Gubenko, the Director of International business center «Russia in WTO» and Iosif Aronov, the expert in the WTO questions.

Both of the experts took a direct part in negotiations at the stage of coordination of the conditions for Russia's accession to WTO, therefore, they have proud knowledge in the details and characteristics of the relationship within the WTO. The seminar was a unique and extremely useful for the regional business community. During the workshop, the participant discussed the tariff instruments of trade policy, subsidies in international trade, technical regulation in the framework of the WTO and the Customs Union, current trends and practice of application of tools of protection of the internal market in the world. Also in the workshop had been considered possible consequences of Russia's WTO accession and the prospects of Nizhny Novgorod region’s economy.