{"id":684079,"date":"2026-07-10T11:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684079\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T11:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:08:11","slug":"kazakhstans-trade-turnover-nears-45-billion-as-exports-continue-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684079\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan\u2019s Trade Turnover Nears $45 Billion as Exports Continue to Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALMATY \u2013 Kazakhstan\u2019s foreign trade turnover reached $44.9 billion in the first four months of 2026, up 7.9% from the same period last year, according to data released by the Kazakh Bureau of National Statistics on June 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Between January and April, the country\u2019s exports rose by 5% to $24 billion, while imports increased by 11.3% to $20.9 billion, reflecting continued growth in both international demand for Kazakh goods and domestic consumption.<\/p>\n

Trade with member states of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) also expanded during the reporting period. Total turnover reached $9.87 billion, up 13.3% year-on-year. Kazakhstan exported $2.71 billion worth of goods to EAEU partners, down 7.9%, while imports from the bloc climbed 24.1% to $7.16 billion.<\/p>\n

Russia remained Kazakhstan\u2019s largest trading partner within the EAEU, accounting for 87.6% of the country\u2019s trade with the bloc. It was followed by the Kyrgyz Republic (8%), Belarus (4.1%), and Armenia (0.3%).<\/p>\n

Crude oil and raw petroleum products continued to dominate Kazakhstan\u2019s export basket, representing 44% of total exports. Other major export commodities included refined copper and unwrought copper alloys (7.5%), copper ores and concentrates (6.3%), ferroalloys (3.2%), and wheat and meslin (3%).<\/p>\n

On the import side, the largest categories were passenger vehicles (3.1%), petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons (2.7%), pharmaceutical products (2.6%), telephone equipment (2.5%), and electric generating sets and rotary converters (2.5%).<\/p>\n

China remained Kazakhstan\u2019s largest export destination, receiving 20.3% of total exports, followed by Italy (16.5%), Russia (8.4%), T\u00fcrkiye (7.3%), Uzbekistan (6%), and the Netherlands (5.9%).<\/p>\n

Russia also remained the country\u2019s largest source of imports, accounting for 31.8% of total imports. It was followed by China (28.6%), Germany (4.8%), the United States (4.4%), South Korea (2.5%), and T\u00fcrkiye (2.2%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALMATY \u2013 Kazakhstan\u2019s foreign trade turnover reached $44.9 billion in the first four months of 2026, up 7.9%…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-684079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}