Dossayev: Factor of access to sea must be considered in 'Doing Business'

"We are talking about two aspects of the methodology of the World Bank having impact on our low positions in the rankings. The first aspect is a geographical location of the country and the use of this criterion when forming a report. We want to negotiate with the World Bank and experts working on formation of the reports regarding considering the absence of the access to sea of some countries. The second aspect is a transport factor which is not about business climate but about the country itself," the Minister said.

The Minister noted that those were aspects forming the basis for the indicators "Trading across borders".

"Headed by the Prime Minister we will be working in this delectation concerning this issue this year. We hope we will be able to change our positions to some extent after July 1, 2013," he added.

He also informed that 81 days are spent for exporting from Kazakhstan. Besides, 9 documents must be filled in and 4685 US dollars should be paid for a container. For importing to Kazakhstan 69 days are required and 12 documents must be filled in and 4665 US dollars must be paid for a container.

In this regard, in 2013 it is planned to introduce a single electronic window for export-import operations in the sphere of foreign trade and pilot electronic declaration of goods in accordance with the "Trade across borders" indicator.

Source: Kazakh PM's website