The Ministry of Trade told about the elimination of barriers to the export of Kazakh products to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan

Thus, until January 1, 2021, the Uzbek side applied excise taxes on a number of goods when importing products, which did not have the best effect on the volume of mutual trade.
The main excisable goods were motor gasoline, diesel fuel, fuel oils, motor oils, compressor lubricating oil, turbine lubricating oil, washing machine parts, confectionery, flour.
Such measures of regulation of foreign trade activity were equally applied by Uzbekistan to all the countries participating in the CIS Free Trade Zone Agreement.
Since January 1 of this year, Uzbekistan has not applied excise taxes on imported goods.
In January-April 2021, 85 commodity items on 10 HS signs were exported to Uzbekistan in the amount of $ 50.3 million, which were subject to the excise tax on imports. In January-April 2020, the volume of exports of these goods amounted to $ 28.9 million. That is, after the abolition of the excise tax on imports by Uzbekistan, there is an increase in exports of excisable goods from Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan by 74.3%.
The export of confectionery products in 2020 amounted to $ 601.6 thousand, while in 2021, from January to May, exports amounted to$ 964.2 thousand, an increase of 60.3%. Flour exports in 2020 amounted to $ 25.3 thousand, while in 2021, from January to May this year, exports amounted to $ 33.7 thousand, an increase of 33.3%.
At the same time, the issue of Uzbekistan's application of the Agreement on the Country of Origin of Goods remains. In accordance with the CIS FTA Agreement, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan do not apply import customs duties in mutual trade, provided that the criteria for sufficient processing are met, which are defined by the rules for determining the CIS country of origin of 1993.
It should be noted that not all Kazakh goods meet the criteria for sufficient processing of the rules of 1993, respectively, such products are subject to import customs duties in Uzbekistan.
In this regard, negotiations on Uzbekistan's accession to the CIS rules of 2009 are being actively conducted on the bilateral platform. At the moment, Kazakhstan reciprocally applies the rules of 1993 when importing Uzbek goods.
Relations with Tajikistan are based on agreements within the CIS, as well as a number of bilateral agreements.
To date, the customs authorities of Tajikistan apply special tariffs to imported confectionery products from Kazakhstan. The Ministry of Trade and Integration will hold negotiations with the Tajik side to equalize the situation.
At the same time, the issue of reducing the tariff for the transportation of grain and flour was raised at the Intergovernmental Commission with Tajikistan in March 2021, the Kazakh side initiated the issue of establishing a reduction coefficient of 0.4.
In general, it should be noted that the elimination of barriers to the entry of Kazakh products to foreign markets is a constant work within the framework of the IPC and high-level bilateral negotiations.