Agro-Industrial Complex Generates Over Half of Trade Turnover Between Kazakhstan and Tajikistan
JSC "Export Credit Agency of Kazakhstan" (ECA) presented its financial and insurance instruments for supporting exports and joint initiatives at the Kazakh-Tajik Business Forum held in Astana. The event took place within the framework of the state visit of the President of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon.
The central theme of the negotiations involving representatives of government agencies and business communities of both countries was achieving the long-term goal of increasing bilateral trade turnover to $2 billion by 2030. To this end, participants discussed expanding the range of supplied goods, developing industrial cooperation, establishing joint ventures, and modernizing transport and logistics infrastructure. Transport, energy, the agro-industrial complex (AIC), water resources, industry, and digitalization were identified as priority areas of partnership.
On the sidelines of the business program, Ramesh Khudoiev, ECA’s Regional Director in Tajikistan, conducted a series of B2B and B2G meetings, presenting the agency’s mechanisms for stimulating bilateral deliveries to foreign partners.
Practical interest in expanding cooperation is backed by a significant increase in mutual trade metrics. In January–September 2026, the volume of trade turnover between Kazakhstan and Tajikistan reached $1.13 billion, an increase of 25.6% (or $230.9 million) compared to the same period last year.
"The positive dynamics of mutual trade were primarily driven by growth in export deliveries of food and chemical industry products, as well as processed metallurgy," specified Ramesh Khudoiev.
At the same time, the agro-industrial sector remains the foundation of trade cooperation. At the end of 2025, trade turnover in AIC products grew by 40%, accounting for more than half of the total mutual trade volume (up to $578.3 million).
Alongside trade, the bilateral investment partnership is also strengthening: to date, more than 500 enterprises with 100% Tajik capital operate in Kazakhstan.
Concurrently, financial and insurance support from ECA is increasing. In particular, the volume of the Agency's assumed liabilities under contracts of Kazakhstani exporters to Tajikistan grew from 2.6 billion KZT in 2024 to 16.9 billion KZT at the end of the first nine months of 2026.
