Инвестиционный портал Алматинской области

According to statistics, the foreign trade of the Almaty region at the end of 2018 amounted to $ 1.5 billion. Imports prevail in the region’s commodity turnover structure (79% or $ 1.2 billion), which decreased by 16.5% or $ 241.4 million. Exports increased by 16.1% or $ 44.3 million and amounted to $ 318.7 million.

In terms of export volumes, the Almaty region, among other regions of Kazakhstan, is in 13th place and occupies a 0.9% share in the country's exports.

Export structure of the region:

• 59.4% ($ 189.2 million) - food products (cigarettes, fish fillets, wheat flour, confectionery, malt, poultry meat, soft drinks), markets: Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Russia , Uzbekistan, Tajikistan;
• 17% ($ 54.1 million) - machinery, equipment, instruments and devices (batteries, bearings, cars), sales markets: Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan;
• 12% ($ 38.2 million) - mineral products (liquefied propane, barium sulfate, plaster, slate), sales markets: China, Turkmenistan, Russia;
• 5.6% ($ 17.8 million) - products of the chemical industry (plugs and closures for closures, polyethylene pipes, polystyrene products, putty materials, PVC profiles), sales markets: Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan ;
• 2% (US $ 6.5 million) - building materials (gypsum products, granite), sales markets: Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan;
• 1.6% ($ 5.2 million) - metals and products from them (pipes from ferrous metals, iron profiles, aluminum profiles, copper profiles, metal structures from ferrous metals), sales markets: Kyrgyzstan, Russia;
• 1.5% (US $ 4.7 million) - wood and pulp and paper products (paper and cardboard products, chipboard), sales markets: Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan;
• 0.6% ($ 1.9 million) - textiles and textile products (wool), sales markets: China, Russia, Kyrgyzstan;
• 0.4% ($ 1.2 million) - the remaining product groups (tanned leather, electric lighting equipment, etc.).

In the structure of exports of processed goods, more than half is accounted for by consumer goods (53.5% of all processed goods), intermediate goods account for 44.7% of the share and 1.8% are the means of production.

Exports of finished goods in 2018 amounted to $ 268.1 million, an increase of 11.6% compared with 2017. The largest volume of exports accounted for cigarettes ($ 110.3 million), batteries ($ 40.2 million), fish fillets ($ 17.9 million), wheat flour (15.3 million US dollars), confectionery ($ 9.7 million), corks and lids of plastics ($ 7.9 million), malt ($ 7 million), plaster products (5, $ 8 million), bearings ($ 4.2 million), poultry meat ($ 3.6 million), soft drinks ($ 2.7 million), cars ( 2,7 mln. Dollars of the USA) and so forth

In export policy, the region is more focused on Kyrgyzstan - 24.5% of the share (cigarettes, gypsum products, batteries, soft drinks, etc.), Russia - 18.7% (batteries, bearings, malt) and China - 9, 9% (petroleum gases, confectionery, wool). The export of processed goods is mainly directed to the countries of the EAEU and the CIS - 64.8% of the share. At the same time, exports within the framework of the EAEU grew by 26.7% from $ 103 to $ 130.5 million, due to an increase in the supply of batteries. Exports to the CIS countries (without EAEU) grew by 4.6% from $ 54 to $ 56.5 million.