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  • Uzbekistan to remove excise tax on some imported products

    UZBEKISTAN, 2017/08/26

  • Better Uzbek-Kyrgyz relations are due to Mirziyoyev's policy

    KYRGYZSTAN, 2017/08/26 The reason for better Uzbek-Kyrgyz trade relations is Uzbekistan’s new president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, said Bruce Pannier, a Central Asia expert. “His government’s foreign policy, particularly towards immediate neighbors in Central Asia, is a drastic departure from his predecessor Islam Karimov,” Pannier told Trend.

  • Uztrade JSC creates Trading House in Delhi

    INDIA, 2017/08/26 Uztrade JSC under Uzbek Foreign Trade Ministry established a Trading Home in Delhi in order to increase the volume of export deliveries and strengthen its position on the Indian market, according to the data published on the website of Uzbek Foreign Ministry. Within the framework of Trade Home operation, a permanent exhibition-sale is being created in the form of a show room, where consumer and food products of Uzbek producers will be presented.

  • China-Kazakhstan free trade zone sees 1 mln visitors in Q1

    CHINA, 2017/04/07 A China-Kazakhstan free trade zone received about one million visits in the initial quarter of 2017, according to local border inspection authorities. The Horgos International Border Cooperation Center on the China-Kazakhstan border, in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has seen an increasing number of tourists since 2012. It attracted a total of 5.43 million tourists in 2016.

  • China, Kyrgyzstan to boost trade, economic cooperation

    CHINA, 2017/04/07 Representatives of Chinese companies doing business in Kyrgyzstan met here on Thursday with the country's Initial Deputy Prime Minister and co-chairman of the Kyrgyz-Chinese intergovernmental commission Muhammetkaly Abulgaziev. The conference was as well attended by Chinese Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Xiao Qinghua, the Kyrgyz Government's press service reported. Xiao said China highly values good-neighborly relations with Kyrgyzstan and is committed to strengthening relations in all areas of cooperation. "We are ready to develop bilateral cooperation in all areas of the economy, particularly in the fields of agriculture, transport and infrastructure."

  • Israel purchases most of its oil from Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan.

    AZERBAIJAN, 2016/11/02 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to become the initial holder of his office to visit Australia, Singapore, and Kazakhstan during a series of trips over the next three months, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. He is as well slated to visit Azerbaijan, which he toured briefly as prime minister in 1997. “Israel’s international relations are spreading in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and a lot of other places,” Netanyahu said in reference to the planned trips at the start of his weekly cabinet conference. “We realize that this development flows from Israel’s technological and economic strength on one hand, and its security and intelligence capabilities on the other.”

  • Central Asian countries, EU to mull issues of co-op

    AFGHANISTAN, 2016/10/06 Uzbekistan’s delegation led by the country’s Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov will participate in the interregional ministerial conference “Central Asia-European Union” and in the international conference on Afghanistan, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry’s press service said on October 4. The conference will be held on October 4-5 in Belgium’s capital. During the visit, the Uzbek delegation is going to hold negotiations with officials of the European Union (EU). The strategy of cooperation in the “Central Asia-European Union” format was approved in 2007.

  • Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan eye increasing trade turnover

    KAZAKHSTAN, 2016/09/23 Acting Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev met with Kazakhstan’s Initial Deputy Prime Minister Askar Mamin Sept. 22, Uzbekistan National News Agency (UzA) reported. During the conference, the sides discussed the issues on practical implementation of agreements reached during Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s visit to Samarkand on September 12, 2016, in particular, on the further expansion of mutually beneficial trade and economic cooperation, according to the agency.

  • New head of EU delegation assumes duties in Uzbekistan

    NETHERLAND, 2016/09/23 The new chief of the EU delegation in Uzbekistan Latvian diplomat Eduards Stiprais took office. EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini approved Stiprais chief of the EU delegation in Uzbekistan in late August 2016, reported the EU delegation in Tashkent. Prior to his appointment to Uzbekistan, Stiprais served as deputy secretary of national -.political director of the Foreign Ministry of Latvia.

  • Turkmenistan developing trade ties with Italy

    ITALY, 2016/09/23 Turkmenistan has recently completed effective development of trade relations with Italy, the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper reported. The foreign trade turnover between Turkmenistan and Italy amounted to $1-1.3 billion in 2014-2015. Turkmenistan's exports to Italy exceeded $528 million in January-June 2016 and the foreign trade surplus is close to $500 million.
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