What measures are being taken to stimulate e-commerce?

The Ministry of Trade and Integration of the Republic of Kazakhstan is comprehensively working to stimulate e-commerce and training of SMEs, the development of delivery services and logistics services, improving legislation, as well as the development of online cross-border trade.

So, in order to teach more students the basics of e-commerce, a training module on the jumysbar educational platform has been launched this year.kz, which includes training materials, video lessons, interviews with various successful online business entrepreneurs.

In addition, within the framework of stimulating the development of internal e-commerce, work is being actively carried out to train SMEs in doing business online.

To do this, starting from September of this year, MIT will launch the platform SmartDuken.kz, which is developed by AIFC FintechHub in partnership with a leading global payment company, Mastercard.

Already this year, 4 courses will be launched on the platform. To date, the course release schedule is ready, and further work is underway to create content for the courses.

Not excluding the ongoing work to promote domestic production abroad, the EAEU member states plan to conduct a pilot project (experiment) in the field of foreign electronic commerce, which is aimed at simplifying payment payments and performing all customs operations, as well as improving the convenience for recipients of goods.

The project also provides for the introduction of the institute of an e-commerce operator, which will significantly speed up customs administration and simplify procedures within the framework of e-commerce.

In general, in 2019, the volume of the e-commerce market in the Republic of Kazakhstan amounted to about 700 billion rubles. In 2020, this indicator increased by 2 times and exceeded the mark of 1.1 trillion tenge, reaching a share of 9.7 % of the total volume of retail B2C trade.