By the end of 2022, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan have made significant progress in bilateral trade and economic cooperation. Thus, trade between the countries increased by 18.5% and reached $1.4 billion. Export deliveries of Kazakhstani goods increased by 9.7% and amounted to $877.6 million. The growth was mainly due to an increase in exports of wheat, margarine, sunflower oil, barley, hot-rolled unalloyed steel rods, cyanides, aluminum oxides and hydroxides. The positive trend in Kazakhstan's exports continued in the first quarter of 2023. Imports from Tajikistan increased by 37.9% last year and amounted to $501.4 million.
Last year, trade in agricultural products showed an increase of 40%, exceeding half of the total volume of mutual trade between Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, or $578.3 million.
In 2022, the volume of export-import traffic amounted to 563.87 thousand tons, an increase of 90.23 thousand tons compared to 2021. Road haulage increased by 66%, reaching 288.65 thousand tons.