About reimbursement of expenses to exporters

Since the beginning of 2020, the Ministry of trade and integration has received 500 applications from 246 exporters for reimbursement of service costs totaling 5,848 million tenge.
According to the results of 6 meetings of the Ministry of internal Affairs, 98 applications from 57 companies were approved for a total amount of 1,128.6 million tenge.

The cost recovery tool for exporters in the non-resource sector was first applied at the end of the 2nd quarter of 2019 under the Ministry of industry and infrastructure development. However, these rules had limitations in the coverage of business entities, as well as difficulties in processing documents.
During 2019-2020, the Ministry of trade and integration made changes to the rules for subsidizing exporters only once - the 2nd set of rules for cost recovery was adopted on October 16, 2019.
Reference.
1st Package reimbursement of expenses of exporters - the "Rules of reimbursement of expenses for subjects of industrial-innovative activities for promotion of domestic processed goods, list of domestic processed goods, which are partially reimbursed the cost of their promotion" was enacted on 30 November 2015 by order of the Minister for investment and development of Kazakhstan No. 1128. Registered with the Ministry of justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan on December 31, 2015 No. 12730.
The 2nd set Of rules for reimbursement of part of the cost to exporters adopted changes:
- air and sea transport services have started to be reimbursed);
- reduced the list of requirements for documents;
- increased the amount to be reimbursed for costs related to the delivery of goods to the final destination to 50%;
- expanded the list of domestic processed goods (defense industrial complex), etc.
Since the simplification of the Rules, the number of export entrepreneurs covered by state support has increased from 50 to 139 entities.
State support for exporters allowed expanding the geography of exports and the range of export products. For the first time, Kazakhstan's batteries were exported to Italy, and military products were exported to Bangladesh. This was made possible by reducing the cost of supplied products by 5-10%.

According to the Rules, the reimbursement of part of the costs of subjects of industrial and innovative activities for the promotion of domestic processed goods is made in the following types:
1) expenses related to advertising goods abroad;
2) expenses for direct participation in foreign exhibitions, fairs, festivals;
3) costs associated with the development, translation into foreign languages and publication of a specialized catalog for distribution abroad;
4) expenses for maintaining branches, representative offices, retail space and warehouse abroad;
5) the cost of conducting procedures related to the registration of: trademarks (brand) abroad; on electronic trading platforms;
6) costs for activities related to procedures of conformity of goods to requirements of technical regulations and standards, including standards organizations, or the terms of contracts or proof of the right to realization of activity on sale of goods abroad (certificates, permits, registration certificate and other documents);
7) expenses related to the delivery of goods by rail, air, road, sea and transportation organization.