Kazakh Parliament ratifies Protocol on free trade zone with Uzbekistan
11:37, 27 March 2014
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - The Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan at the plenary session has ratified the Protocol on application of the Treaty on the CIS free trade zone as of October 18, 2011 between the parties, and Uzbekistan".
Minister of Economy and Budget Planning Yerbolat Dossayev said that the Treaty on the free trade zone was signed October 18, 2011 in Minsk. Its members are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and the Ukraine. In February 2013 Uzbekistan reported in the CIS Executive Committee on the intention to accede to the Treaty.
Under the Protocol, Kazakhstan fixed the list of goods which are provided with export duties when exporting them to Uzbekistan. The same measures are taken by Uzbekistan.
An agreement on free trade zone provides for "minimizing exemptions from the range of goods subjected to import duties".