The Ministry of Industry and Trade is a federal agency under the executive branch responsible for:
• drafting national policy and legal regulation for industry, including the defence industry, aviation technology development, technical standardisation and metrology, science and technology in defence and state security, and external and internal trade
• providing state services and managing state property for engineering, and the metallurgical, chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnological, medical, light, forest and wood product, electronic, aircraft and shipbuilding industries, for the communications industry, ammunition and special chemical industry, chemical disarmament, and conventional ammunition industry
• providing support for the export of industrial goods and ensuring market access for goods and services
• holding exhibitions and fairs
• carrying out research prior to the introduction of special safety, anti-dumping or compensation measures for the import of goods
• adopting non-tariff regulations
• state regulation of foreign trade (excluding customs and tariff regulation and matters related to the accession of the Russian Federation to the World Trade Organisation)
• technical regulation.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade is a national body of the Russian Federation authorised to implement the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction; and the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction.