ASTANA, Kazakhstan, February 19. In 2024, Russia became Kazakhstan's leading trade partner for imports, accounting for 30.5 percent of the total volume of imported goods, Trend reports via Kazakhstan’s Bureau of National Statistics.
According to the report, Kazakhstan’s main import partners were: Russia (30.5 percent), China (25.3 percent), Germany (4.7 percent), the United States (3.8 percent), South Korea (3.2 percent), and France (3.1 percent). At the same time, in 2024, the main export destinations were Italy (22.9 percent), China (18.3 percent), Russia (11.7 percent), the Netherlands (6.5 percent), France (4.5 percent), and Türkiye (4.1 percent).
The largest commodity groups imported by Kazakhstan in 2024 include passenger cars (3.8 percent), airplanes (3 percent), pharmaceuticals (2.8 percent), cell phones (2.7 percent) and vehicle bodies (2.3 percent). The country's exports were mainly in the form of oil and oil products (52.5 percent), radioactive chemical elements and isotopes (5.6 percent), copper and copper alloys (5.1 percent), ores and copper concentrates (3.9 percent), and ferroalloys (3 percent).
To note, Kazakhstan imported $18.2 billion worth of goods from Russia in 2024, which is 8.3 percent more than in 2023 ($16.8 billion). Kazakhstan's exports to Russia, on the other hand, fell to $9.5 billion in the same year, down 6.5 percent from an estimated $10.2 billion in 2023.