According to Kazakh statistics, bilateral trade in 2025 amounted to USD 705.1 million, an increase of 13%. Kazakhstan’s exports totalled USD 121.3 million, down 20%, while imports amounted to USD 583.8 million, up 24.8%.
According to Czech statistics, bilateral trade in 2025 reached USD 1.6 billion, an increase of 20.1%. Imports amounted to USD 1 billion, up 29.7%, while exports totalled USD 601.7 million, up 6.8%.
The discrepancy in statistical data is presumably due to the fact that Kazakhstan’s statistics do not reflect oil exports.
The main items of Kazakhstan’s exports are ferroalloys, hydrogen, inert gases and other non-metals, oil and gas sector products, chemical products (salts of phosphoric acids), hot-rolled flat products of non-alloy steel, and hard coal.
The main items of Kazakhstan’s imports are automotive components, aircraft, computers, internal combustion engines, pharmaceutical products, agricultural machinery, furniture, glass, and ceramics.
Investment Cooperation
Between 2005 and 31 December 2025, the gross inflow of direct investment from the Czech Republic to Kazakhstan amounted to USD 431.0 million, including USD 22.3 million in 2021, USD 21.6 million in 2022 and USD 48 million in 2023. The figure stood at USD 42.4 million in 2024 and USD 59 million in 2025.
Between 2005 and 31 December 2025, the gross outflow of direct investment from Kazakhstan to the Czech Republic amounted to USD 24.9 million. The figure stood at USD 0.7 million in 2024 and USD 1 million in 2025.
A total of 142 legal entities with Czech capital are registered in the Republic of Kazakhstan, of which 107 are currently active.
Since the end of May 2024, SCAT Airlines has resumed direct flights on the Astana-Prague route, operating four times a week during the summer season and twice a week during the autumn-winter season.
The areas of mutual interest for the business communities of the two countries include engineering, energy, agriculture, transport, and pharmaceuticals. New areas of interest have also emerged in nanotechnology, advanced animal breeding methods, hydrogen production, mining equipment, detonators for geological purposes, and Smart City technologies, including engineering, utility, and energy service solutions.
An important mechanism of bilateral cooperation is the Kazakhstan–Czech Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Industrial, Scientific and Technical Cooperation (IGC). The 12th meeting of the IGC was held in Astana on 24 April 2025. The next, 13th meeting is scheduled to take place in the Czech Republic in 2026. The Kazakh co-chair of the IGC is Vice Minister of Industry and Construction of the Republic of Kazakhstan O. Saparbekov, while the Czech co-chair is Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic J. Sechter.
During the official visit of Czech Prime Minister P. Fiala to Kazakhstan on 23-24 April 2023, a business forum was held, during which five agreements were signed in the fields of transport and export credit insurance, with a total value exceeding EUR 230 million.
On 15 April 2025, NAC Kazatomprom JSC and the Czech company ČEZ signed a contract for the supply of Kazakh natural uranium concentrate to Czech nuclear power plants. Over the following seven years, supplies of Kazakh uranium could cover approximately one-third of the uranium required to manufacture Westinghouse fuel assemblies used at the Temelín Nuclear Power Plant.
The official visit of Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš to Astana on 28-29 April 2026 reaffirmed the mutual interest in deepening trade and economic cooperation. Particular attention was given to expanding cooperation in energy, industry, transport and logistics, critical raw materials and the defence industry, as well as to attracting Czech investment. During a business forum attended by around 300 representatives of the business community, six memoranda were signed in the fields of mechanical engineering, energy, the defence industry, general aviation and export cooperation.
In order to promote trade and economic cooperation and realise Kazakhstan’s investment potential, regular contacts are maintained with leading Czech companies, including Skoda Auto (automotive industry), PPF (financial and investment group), Omnipol (aviation and defence industry), Skoda Transportation (rail transport manufacturing), Tatra (automotive industry), Czechoslovak Group (defence industry), PBS Group (defence industry), ZVVZ (industrial filters), MEGA Group (industrial filters for water treatment), Sklostroj (glass container production equipment), Ferrit (mining machinery), Zetor (agricultural machinery), Primoco UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles), JK Machinery (agricultural machinery), Farmet (agricultural machinery), Zimatechnik (pedigree cattle breeding), and others.