Business and the Ministry of trade discussed the project State program for trade development of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2021-2025

NUR-SULTAN. MTI RK, June 11-Vice Minister of trade and integration Azamat Askaruly presented to the business community the State program for trade development of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2021-2025.

Participants of the Online conference discussed the draft state Program in detail with the National chamber of entrepreneurs "Atameken" and business to work out proposals and comments.

Earlier, on March 4, The government of the Republic of Kazakhstan approved the concept of trade development of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2021-2025. Active work was carried out to coordinate the draft Concept with the National chamber of entrepreneurs "Atameken" and business associations, about 30 suggestions and comments were taken into account.

To date, the Ministry has developed a draft state program for trade development for the next five years. The project was sent for expert opinion and published on the website for public discussion.

In General, the draft program provides for 5 areas: improving technical regulation, developing domestic trade, foreign trade within the framework of economic integration, developing and promoting non-resource exports of goods and services, and improving the system of consumer protection.

At the same time, Vice-Minister of MTI of Kazakhstan Azamat Askaruly noted that the purpose of the program is to create and the development of a modern trading system that ensures the saturation of the market with quality products and the competitiveness of export goods and services.

Moreover, the Ministry aims to achieve 7 macro indicators in 2025. This includes reducing the share of shadow trade to 31%, achieving the level of application of national standards to 75% , and increasing non-resource exports of goods and services to 41 billion US dollars, and increasing e-Commerce to 10% of retail trade.

When defining a long-term strategy for trade development in the context of 7 key tasks, more than 20 qualitative indicators of achievement were also identified.

In addition, during the online conference, questions were received from the areas of technical regulation, construction of wholesale and distribution centers, as well as on the mechanism for subsidizing transport costs of delivering goods to small remote localities by outbound trade entities, etc.

Askaruly Azamat noted that these discussions are organized to study questions, comments and various initiatives and to carefully analyze them, since this program is very focused on business and trade.

In this regard, please send your suggestions and comments to the Department of strategy and digitalization of the MTI RK, Almas Serikovich Isakov, +7 (7172) 75-06-22, a.isakov@mti.gov.kz, NCE "Atameken" asset Aitbayev, 87026565260 , a.aitbayev@atameken.kz .