Baku, Azerbaijan, July 17
By Elena Kosolapova - Trend:
Kazakhstan has decreased trade with Turkmenistan in January-May 2017, according to Kazakh Statistics Committee’s data.
The trade turnover between Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan hit $61.55 million in January-May 2017, including $23.61 million of Kazakh export to Turkmenistan and $38.04 million of Turkmen export to Kazakhstan.
The share of Turkmenistan in Kazakhstan’s foreign trade hit 0.2 percent in this period.
The trade turnover between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan hit $704.53 million in this period. As much as $470.96 million of this sum fell on Kazakh export to Uzbekistan and $233.57 – on Uzbek export to Kazakhstan.
Uzbekistan accounted 2.4 percent of Kazakhstan’s foreign trade in the reporting period.
In January - December 2016 the shares of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan in Kazakhstan’s foreign trade were at 2.4 and 0.5 percent correspondingly. Kazakh-Uzbek trade hit $1.51 billion, Kazakh-Turkmen trade – $283.5 million in 2016.