"We have managed to obtain the level of tariffs set as targeted on all positions that were of principle to us, including agriculture," German Gref told journalists in Hanoi, where the 14th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit is underway.
The minister said the last round of talks with the U.S. revolved round the access to the financial services market, intellectual property rights protection and agriculture.
He said the line has not been drawn under the financial services issue though it was coordinated.
As for intellectual property rights protection, the economic development and trade minister said Russia will officially promise that the situation in the sphere will not deteriorate in the country but on the contrary, laws and their enforcement will be improved.
Russia, the largest economy outside the world's leading trade body, wanted to sign a protocol with Washington at Russia's debut summit of the Group of Eight nations July 15-17, but the deadline was moved to October.
Russia has completed all bilateral talks on joining the World Trade Organization and will finish multilateral negotiations by next summer, the country's chief negotiator, Maksim Medvedkov, said Friday.
"To date Russia has ended all negotiations with WTO nations on access to commodity markets," Medvedkov said. "Now multilateral negotiations still remain, and we plan to finish those by next summer."
To join the WTO, Russia must sign bilateral protocols with the United States, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador and Moldova, and renegotiate its entry with Georgia, which has withdrawn its signature.
