Kazakhstan has almost doubled its agricultural exports to Pakistan this year: in January-August, exports amounted to $7.7 million. Vegetables and grain crops from Kazakhstan are in demand on the Pakistani market. Given the expected high harvest, Kazakhstan is ready to increase the volume of annual supplies to Pakistan to 2 million tons of grain crops. This was announced by the head of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov at a meeting with the Prime Minister of Pakistan Shahbaz Sharif.
According to the press service of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, over the first eight months of this year, trade turnover between Kazakhstan and Pakistan increased by 16%, amounting to about $40 million. To unlock the existing potential, the parties intend to continue diversifying trade turnover. Kazakhstan is ready to increase the volume of supplies for 85 commodity items for a total amount of more than $490 million to the Pakistani market, including expanding the range of supplied products from the petrochemical, metallurgical, chemical, pharmaceutical industries, as well as the food industry and mechanical engineering.
In the transit and transport sector, against the backdrop of a threefold increase in the volume of rail freight traffic and a fourfold increase in transit traffic by road, government leaders discussed the prospects for further development of the existing multimodal route Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan and the new transport corridor Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan.