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According to the Kazakh Ministry of Trade and Integration press service, Kazakhstan – Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) trade turnover reached $10 billion in January – May this year (4.8 percent up compared to the same period of the previous year ($9.5 billion).
The decrease of exports from Kazakhstan to the EAEU countries attained 0.9 percent ($2.9 billion) in January – May. Iron ore concentrates, hot rolled steel and cold rolled steel and ferrous metals were included. Simultaneously, the supply of aluminum oxides and hydroxides, unprocessed zinc, ferroalloys, and rolling stock components has increased.
At the same time, an increase of imports from the EAEU countries to Kazakhstan by 7.3 percent ($7 billion) has been observed in the first five months of this year. The majority of the imported goods were made up by copper ores and concentrates, sunflower seeds, wheat, zinc concentrates, semi-finished products of non-alloy steel, mineral and carbonated water and nitrogen fertilizers.
Kazakhstan’s non-primary goods trade turnover with EAEU countries attained $8.1 billion (6.2 percent up compared to the same period in 2021 ($7.7 billion).
An increase by 13.6 percent ($2 billion) was shown by exports of non-primary goods from Kazakhstan to the EAEU countries, while the growth of imports of processed goods to Kazakhstan from the EAEU countries reached 4.1 percent ($6.2 billion).

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According to the Kazakh Ministry of Trade and Integration press service, the trade turnover of non-primary goods of Kazakhstan in January – May 2022 attained $25.3 billion (20.4 percent up compared to the same period of the previous year ($21.0 billion).
QazTrade, center for trade policy development under the Ministry of Trade and Integration, reported that the increase of non-primary goods export from Kazakhstan reached 34.7 percent in five months ($9.7 billion).
The export growth has been contributed to by a significant increase in the supply of non-raw materials such as ferroalloys, uranium, copper, sulfur, and unprocessed zinc.
The supplies of wheat or wheat-rye flour drastically increased by 86 percent, as well as oxides and hydroxides aluminum – by 89.2 percent.
At the same time, the average boost of the import attained 12.9 percent ($15.5 billion). An increase in the import of such non-primary goods as automobile bodies, medicines packaged for retail sale, ferrous metal products, parts, accessories for cars and tractors, engines internal combustion with spark ignition, telephones, and air conditioning units drives its growth.
The ministry reports that Kazakhstan’s main trading partners in non-primary goods are Russia (export – 17.9 percent, import – 37.2 percent), China (export – 19.9 percent, import – 23.5 percent) and Turkey (export – 7.5 percent, import – 2.9 percent).

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