RUSSIA AND FINLAND PREPARING BILATERAL AGREEMENT OVER AVOIDANCE OF THE
DOUBLE TAXATION FORWARDS








MOSCOW, 5 March (RIA "Nowosti" rIA-"Nowosti"-Korrespondent Alexander
Iwaschtschenko).  Representatives of the lines industrie and of the
Chambers of Commerce of the Russian federation and Finland expressed
themselves in a top plate session on Monday in Moscow for a fastest
possible signing of an agreement over the avoidance of the double
taxation.  The users of the session are the opinion that the agreement
becomes the development of the relations between the two countries in
trade and economics further stimuli.

Representatives of the lines of business of Russia and Finland brought
also questions to the language, those the information security of the
Business, which concern a cooperating in the area of the goods
expert's assessment and with the protection of mental property.
Besides the basic directions of co-operation were marked out for the
time to 2010.

The users of the session addition that turnover sales between the two
countries is not satisfying for the moment.  The foreign trade
conversion between Russia and Finland constitutes to time only four
per cent of the conversion of Finland.  In this connection the Russian
representatives expressed hope that Finnish businessmen will activate
their co-operation with Russian partners.

In this April takes place in St. Petersburg a common session of
representatives industrie and of the Chambers of Commerce of Finland
and the northwest region of Russia.