The Best Exporter of 2016 Awards Ceremony was held in the small hall of the Palace of the Republic on May 19, 2017. The competition was held among business entities, represented by ministries, concerns, regional executive committees and the Minsk City Executive Committee, business unions, and was based on official statistics on such criteria as total volume and rate of export growth, foreign trade balance, export volume per worker. 144 enterprises entered the final stage of the competition, which is 19% more than last year. The competition was held in 22 nominations, each of which identified winners.