According to the Riga Peace Treaty of March 18, 1921, both parties were obliged, no later than six months from the date of ratification of the agreement to begin negotiations on the conclusion of a special Trade Agreement and an agreement on compensatory barter. Desiring to improve Soviet-Polish trade relations between representatives of the Office of the Authorized People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade of RSFSR under the Council of People’s Commissars of the BSSR and Polish business circles (joint-stock companies Dava-Britopol, Palantyn, Zapadoles, Gratenau). Their result was the conclusion of several agricultural implements, certain types of food chemical compounds.

In the initial period of the formation of foreign economic relations between the BSSR and the Polish Republic, Belvneshtorg played a positive role in the formation and development of international economic and technical ties between the BSSR and Poland. Commercial  transactions of the organization largely determined the import and export of Soviet Belarus, which positively influenced the formation of the industrial and economic complex of the country in the early 1920s, the development of the economy, education and science of the republic. The formation and development of export-import operations took place in a difficult situation. There were a number of factors that negatively affected the activities of the NKVT of the BSSR, lowered the efficiency of its work: the monopoly of foreign trade, strict dictatorship by the Supreme Council of National Economy and its structures in the BSSR, the lack of a well-thought-out market legislative base, coupled with bureaucratic shortcomings, unfavorable conditions in the European and world markets, ill-conceived foreign policy strategy of the state, lack of effective management.