Petar Jotev, BG Deputy PM and Minister of Economy, will open today the 21st International Fair for Consumer Goods and Technologies in Plovdiv. 1. 232 companies from 36 countries will take part in the fair. The countries to be represented are: Austria, Albania, Argentina, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Venezuela, Greece, Denmark, Egypt, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, China, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, the Russian Federation, the USA, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Uruguay, Ukraine, Hungary, Finland, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Japan. 829 companies, 401 of them producers, will represent Bulgaria. Foreign exhibitors are 403.