According to the results of 2018, trade with Turkmenistan amounted to $ 99.5 million (export - 86.6 million, import - 12.9 million).
In 2019, trade turnover exceeded $ 145.9 million, (exports - 116.5 million, imports - 29.4 million).
In 2018, the Trade Mission of Kazakhstan to Turkmenistan, organized by the Foreign Trade Chamber of Kazakhstan and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Turkmenistan, was held in Ashgabat.
In August 2019, the First Caspian Economic Forum was held in the Avaza National Tourist Zone, in which representatives of Kazakhstan business took part. A number of cooperation agreements have been signed.
In March 2019, the tenth meeting of the Kazakh-Turkmen Intergovernmental Commission on Economic, Scientific, Technical and Cultural Cooperation was held in Astana.
The main export items to Turkmenistan are wheat, flour, chemical fertilizers, and metallurgical products.
The main import items from Turkmenistan are textile, mineral and chemical products.
Cooperation in the field of transport and communications is developing dynamically, as evidenced by the successfully functioning railway Kazakhstan - Turkmenistan - Iran.
Considering the plans of Ashgabat to build a satellite for remote sensing of the Earth, as well as the experience of the Kazakh side, cooperation in the space sector is promising.