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Kazakhstan’s trade with Tajikistan passes $1 billion in eight months on wheat and fuel gas

Trade between Kazakhstan and Tajikistan exceeded $1 billion in January to August, 34 percent more than a year earlier, Kazakhstan’s ambassador in Dushanbe, Valikhan Turekhanov, said at a Republic Day reception on Monday. Asia-Plus puts the nine-month figure at about $1.13 billion, with wheat, liquefied petroleum gases, steel rebar and alumina the largest lines from Kazakhstan and zinc concentrate the largest the other way.

By CAW Staff27 October 2026
A grain hopper wagon unloading wheat at a mill siding at dawn, a single amber lamp on the gantry above.

Turekhanov said Kazakh investment in Tajikistan’s economy has passed $148 million and that Kazakhstan is among the largest investors in the country, with the potential of the relationship, in his words as Asia-Plus carried them in Russian, considerably wider than what has been realised. The remarks were made at the official reception in Dushanbe for Kazakhstan’s Republic Day and were also carried by Interfax-Kazakhstan via Kapital.kz.

Asia-Plus’s own count for January to September puts turnover at about $1.13 billion. Tajikistan imported almost 998,200 tonnes of wheat for $264.1 million, 225,600 tonnes of petroleum and other gaseous hydrocarbons for $153.8 million, steel rebar for $150.2 million and aluminium oxide for $67.9 million, and also sunflower and safflower oil, maize, barley and flour.

Tajikistan’s five largest export lines to Kazakhstan come to $61 million by CAW’s arithmetic, against $636 million for the four largest import lines.

In the other direction the largest line was zinc ores and concentrates at $32.2 million, followed by unwrought lead at $17.9 million, quicklime at $4.4 million, exercise books at $3.7 million and sweetened or flavoured waters at $2.8 million, with dried fruit and grapes behind them.

Tajikistan’s five largest export lines to Kazakhstan come to $61 million by CAW’s arithmetic, against $636 million for the four largest import lines. Wheat alone, at about a million tonnes in nine months, is worth more than four times everything Tajikistan sells to Kazakhstan in the lines Asia-Plus names.

Asia-Plus’s nine-month figure of $1.13 billion covers a different period from the ambassador’s eight-month $1 billion, and the two are not to be added.

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