The policy of promoting domestic agricultural products to the world market will ensure food security. In this regard, it is necessary to build the capacity of import substitution aimed at expanding domestic market by saturating with domestic food products using protection measures. The article shows the role of concentration of efforts on strategic positions of State regulation, operative monitoring of agri-food market. The tendencies in the development of world markets of agro products, increased production in the industry, simultaneous increase of the number of active market participants, main component of import substitution policy, and a set of measures on tariff regulation have been considered. The authors state that development of pro-cessing industry of the agri sector of the republic should be carried out on the basis of intensifi-cation of measures on import substitution, increase of investment activity, improving its produc-tion base and quality of products optimizing commodity flows in foreign trade turnover.