In accordance with the Joint Order of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 351 dated October 3, 2025 and the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 574 dated October 6, 2025, a ban was introduced for a period of six months on the export of broodstock of cattle from the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan (the code of goods of foreign economic activity (hereinafter - TN FEA) 0102 and the broodstock of small cattle according to the code TN FEA 0104.
This order was put into effect on October 11, 2025.
The purpose of this ban is to ensure the country's food security, preserve and develop breeding stock, reload domestic processing enterprises and stabilize beef prices.
In accordance with the order of the Minister of Industry and Construction of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 449 dated October 23, 2025 "On some issues of regulating the export of scrap and waste of ferrous and non-ferrous metals," a ban was imposed for a period of six months on the export of scrap and waste of ferrous and non-ferrous metals from the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The ban applies to all types of transport to the following codes of TN VED EAEU):
code 7404 00 - waste and scrap copper, 7602 00 - waste and scrap aluminum, 7802 00 000 0 - waste and scrap lead, 8549 11 000 0 - waste and scrap lead batteries, spent lead batteries, 8549 12,000 0 - others containing lead, cadmium or mercury, 8549 13,000 0 - sorted by chemical type and not containing lead, cadmium or mercury, 8549 14 000 0 - unsorted and not containing lead, cadmium or mercury, 8549 19 000 0 - other;
EAEU FEA TN code 7204 - waste and scrap of ferrous metals, ingots of ferrous metals for remelting (charge ingots), used pipes, rails, elements of the railway bed and rolling stock: codes TN VED EAEU 7302 - ferrous metal products, used for railway or tram tracks, rails, counter rails and gear rails, transfer rails, blind crossing crosses, transfer rods and other transverse connections, sleepers, splice plates and pads, wedges, base plates, hook rail bolts, pads and braces, beds, crossbars and other parts intended for connecting or fastening rails, EAEU FEA TN code 7303 00 - pipes, tubes and profiles are hollow, made of cast iron, code TN VED EAEU 7304 - pipes, tubes and profiles are hollow, seamless, made of ferrous metals (except for cast iron), EAEU FEA TN code 7305 - other pipes and tubes (for example, welded, riveted or connected in a similar way), with a round cross-section, the outer diameter of which is more than 406.4 mm, made of ferrous metals, the EAEU FEA TN code 7306 - pipes, tubes and hollow profiles, other (e.g. open seam or welded, riveted or similarly joined), of ferrous metals, EAEU FEA TN code 8607 - parts of railway locomotives or motor cars of a tram or rolling stock, with the exception of used elements of rolling stock imported into the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan for repair and exported back, as well as exported from the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan for repair and imported back by road: EAEU FEA TN codes 8607 12,000 0 - other trolleys, 8607 19 100 1 - used, 8607 19 100 9 - other, 8607 19 900 9 - others, 8607 21 100 9 - others, 8607 21 900 9 - other, 8607 29 000 0 - other, 8607 30 000 0 - hooks and other couplers, buffers, their parts, 8607 99 800 0 - other.
This order was put into effect on October 30, 2025.
The ban on the export of scrap and waste of ferrous and non-ferrous metals was introduced in order to provide domestic metallurgical enterprises with raw materials. This is done to maximize the processing of secondary metals within the country and to produce products with higher added value.