Kazakhstan's non-primary exports for six months amounted to $12 billion

According to JSC "QazTrade", the turnover of non-primary goods of Kazakhstan in January-June 2022 amounted to $31.6 billion, which is 20.6% higher than in the same period of the previous year ($26.2 billion).

At the same time, exports of manufacturing goods in January-June 2022 increased by 33.5% and amounted to $ 12 billion US dollars.

The export growth is justified by an increase in the supply of such non-raw materials as: uranium (an increase of 2.2 p.), ferroalloys (by 57%), copper and copper cathodes (by 16.5%), wheat flour or wheat-rye (by 82.5%), telephones (by 92.8%), sulfur, except sublimated, precipitated or colloidal sulfur (3.5 p. growth), aluminum oxides and hydroxides (95.7%).

Imports of non-primary goods to Kazakhstan in January-June 2022 increased by 13.9% and amounted to $19.6 billion.

The increase in imports is justified by an increase in the import of such goods as: car bodies (an increase of 2.5 p.), medicines packaged for retail sale (by 36.9%), other ferrous metal products (an increase of 2.2 p.), spark-ignition internal combustion engines (an increase of 2.2 p.), parts and accessories for cars and tractors (by 41.3%), telephones (by 22.7%), electric generator sets (by 69.8%).