Intergovernmental joint commissions for cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and other countries are one of the most important instruments for the implementation of mutually beneficial projects of an economic nature aimed at intensifying and further expanding trade and economic interaction, more fully realizing the potential available in bilateral relations, which would make it possible to increase and diversify the mutual trade turnover of goods and services. These commissions are created for effective interaction between the business community and the state at the international level. The main goal of these commissions is to create favorable conditions for the development of foreign economic relations of Belarus, to assist businessmen and entrepreneurs in cooperation with foreign partners. At these meetings, the parties consider topical proposals and issues on improving foreign economic relations with partner countries and also find ways to resolve them. Cooperation with intergovernmental commissions gives an opportunity to position exporters in the foreign market as a reliable and attractive partner. How these structures operate in today’s conditions is discussed in this paper.