Kazakhstan's export basket replenished with new products

28 December, 2017 14:36

Absolutely new goods for export appeared in the commodity nomenclature of the Republic of Kazakhstan. These include cars, dump trucks, KAMAZ trucks, electric locomotives, metal products in the form of rolled products and much more. It is planned to produce even domestic vacuum cleaners. It was told by Vice-Minister of National Economy of Kazakhstan Bauyrzhan Bekeshev.

According to the speaker, the trend of expanding the export basket is envisaged by the National Export Strategy until 2022. Here special attention is paid to promising countries in terms of increasing trade turnover.

"Here, of course, we mean our neighbors - the Russian Federation and China. In Central Asia, one of the main partners is Uzbekistan", Bauyrzhan Bekeshev stressed.

As the Vice-Minister of national economy of Kazakhstan noted, the production of cars with the company "AvtoVAZ" is being established.

"Our joint cars will be supplied to the territory beyond the Urals. Prospects for our domestic products to enter the markets of other countries are the trend towards substitution of goods of third countries", Bauyrzhan Bekeshev concluded.

We remind that the Export Strategy Program is aimed at achieving the goals defined by the "Kazakhstan-2050" Strategy, in particular, to increase the export of non-primary goods by half by 2025 compared to 2015.

Kamilla Rashid

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