of December 12, 2008
About the overview of trade policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan
The economic council of the Commonwealth of Independent States solved:
1. Take into consideration the Overview of trade policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
2. Send the specified Overview to the governments of the State Parties of the CIS for informing the interested ministries and departments.
3. Charge to Executive committee of the CIS to place in a month the specified Overview on the website of Executive committee of the CIS on the Internet.
Chairman
Economic council
Commonwealths of Independent States A. KOBYAKOV
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES
The overview of trade policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan is constituted according to the Procedure for carrying out reviews of trade policy of the State Parties of the CIS approved by the Decision of Economic council of the Commonwealth of Independent States of March 15, 2002.
The overview is prepared by Executive committee of the CIS on the basis of the national report provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and information on the matter which is available for Executive committee of the CIS.
The purpose of reviews of trade policy is achievement by the State Parties of the CIS of transparency of trade policy, assistance to observance of the rules, regulations and obligations fixed in international treaties and documents concerning forming and effective functioning of the free trade area and also regular carrying out objective assessment of the main indicators of trade policy and practice of the states of the Commonwealth, their influence on development of mutual trade.
Trade policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan is based on the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan, presidential decrees of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the orders of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and other regulatory legal acts, respect for the conventional principles and rules of international law, and also the obligations following from international treaties of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The ministry of the industry and trade of the Republic of Kazakhstan is the central executive body performing functions on development of state policy of area of development of trading activity.
The purposes of trade policy are:
- protection of the domestic market and support of domestic manufacturers by methods of customs and tariff and non-tariff regulation;
- elimination of unfair competition;
- integration of Kazakhstan into system of the international economic relations by participation in multilateral (World Trade Organization) and regional trade and economic associations;
- harmonization of the national legal system in the field of regulation of trading activity with requirements of the international legislative arrangements and standards;
- forming of system of protection and promotion of economic interests of the Republic directed to creation for the Kazakhstan goods and services of equal access to the foreign markets taking into account requirements of the WTO;
- the satisfaction of needs of consumers in goods which production is not enough or is absent in the Republic;
- development of foreign trade activity for the purpose of expansion of export of domestic goods and services;
- ensuring protection of trade and economic interests of Kazakhstan abroad.
1. Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
2. The law of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic of June 5, 1991 "About consumer protection" (edition from 26.06.1992) (the draft of the new Law "About Consumer Protection" which is considered in Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan is developed now).
3. The law of the Republic of Kazakhstan of June 10, 1996 N 6 "About copyright and the related rights" (edition of 22:11. 2005).
4. The law of the Republic of Kazakhstan of July 10, 1998 N 279 "About drugs, psychotropic substances, precursors and measures of counteraction to their illicit trafficking and abuse of them" (edition from 29.12.2006).
5. The law of the Republic of Kazakhstan of December 28, 1998 N 337 "About measures of protection of the domestic market in case of commodity import" (edition of 07:07. 2006).
6. The law of the Republic of Kazakhstan of December 30, 1998 N 339 "About the state control of turnover of separate types of weapon" (edition from 27.07.2007).
7. The law of the Republic of Kazakhstan of February 11, 1999 N 344 "About quarantine of plants" (edition from 31.01.2006).
8. The law of the Republic of Kazakhstan of July 13, 1999 N 421 "About anti-dumping measures" (edition from 31.01.2006).
9. The law of the Republic of Kazakhstan of July 13, 1999 N 422-I "About protection of selection achievements" (edition 02.03. 2007).
10. The law of the Republic of Kazakhstan of July 16, 1999 N 441-I "About subsidies and countervailing measures" (edition of 09:01. 2006).
11. The law of the Republic of Kazakhstan of January 19, 2001 N 143 "About grain" (edition from 26.07.2007).
12. The code of the Republic of Kazakhstan of January 30, 2001 N 155 "About administrative offenses" (edition of 19:12. 2007).
13. The code of the Republic of Kazakhstan of June 12, 2001 N 209 "About taxes and other obligatory payments in the budget" (edition of 19:12. 2007).
14. The law of the Republic of Kazakhstan of December 4, 2002 N 361 "About sanitary and epidemiologic wellbeing of the population" (edition from 27.07.2007).
15. The customs code of the Republic of Kazakhstan of April 5, 2003 N 401 (edition from 27.11.2007).
16. The presidential decree of the Republic of Kazakhstan of May 17, 2003 N 1096 "About the Strategy of industrial and innovative development of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2003-2015" (edition of 17:05. 2003).
17. The law of the Republic of Kazakhstan of April 12, 2004 N 544 "On regulation of trading activity" (edition of 11:12. 2006).
18. The law of the Republic of Kazakhstan of November 9, 2004 N 603 "About technical regulation" (edition from 29.12.2006).
19. The ecological code of the Republic of Kazakhstan of January 9, 2007 N 212 (edition from 27.07.2007).
20. The law of the Republic of Kazakhstan of January 11, 2007 N 214 "About licensing" (edition from 27.07.2007).
21. The law of the Republic of Kazakhstan of July 6, 2007 N 274 "About special economic zones in the Republic of Kazakhstan" (edition of 06:07. 2007).
22. The law of the Republic of Kazakhstan of July 21, 2007 N 300 "About export control" (edition of 21:07. 2007).
23. The law of the Republic of Kazakhstan of July 21, 2007 N 301 "About safety of food products" (edition of 21:07. 2007).
24. The law of the Republic of Kazakhstan of July 21, 2007 N 303 "About public procurements".
25. The law of the Republic of Kazakhstan of July 21, 2007 N 306 "About safety of toys" (edition of 21:07. 2007).
26. The order of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan of July 8, 2003 N 668 "About approval of the Inventory, the customs duties and taxes and customs duties which are temporarily exported with full relief from payment which are temporarily imported with full relief from payment" (edition 04.07. 2007).
27. The order of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan of July 10, 2003 N 681 "About approval of import bans to the Republic of Kazakhstan and export from the Republic of Kazakhstan of the goods and vehicles, inventories prohibited to the room under some customs regimes and also prohibitions and restrictions for carrying out transactions with the goods placed under separate customs regimes" (edition 28.12.2006).
28. The order of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan of April 21, 2005 N 371 "About approval of Rules of domestic trade" (edition of 21:04. 2005).
29. The order of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan of June 1, 2007 N 447 "About approval of Rules of conducting examination of the cultural values which are exported and imported into the Republic of Kazakhstan" (edition of 01:06. 2007).
30. The order of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan of July 11, 2007 N 594 "About approval of Rules of import, export and transit of waste" (edition of 11:07. 2007).
31. The order of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan of December 28, 2007 N 1317 "About the Customs tariff and the Commodity nomenclature of foreign economic activity of the Republic of Kazakhstan".
Agreements (multilateral, regional, bilateral)
Trade policy of Kazakhstan is created taking into account obligations of the Republic of Kazakhstan assumed within the following international treaties:
1. The agreement on creation of the free trade area of April 15, 1994;
2. The protocol of April 2, 1999 on modification and amendments in the Agreement on creation of the free trade area of April 15, 1994;
3. The bilateral international free-trade treaties signed by the Republic of Kazakhstan with the State Parties of the Commonwealth of Independent States:
- The agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Russian Federation on free trade of October 22, 1992;
- The agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of Ukraine on free trade of September 17, 1994 and the Protocol on withdrawals from free trade regime to the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of Ukraine on free trade of December 29, 1997;
- The agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic on free trade of June 22, 1995;
- The agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Republic of Moldova on free trade of May 26, 1995 and the Protocol on withdrawals from free trade regime to the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Republic of Moldova on free trade of May 26, 1995;
- The agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan on free trade of November 22, 1995;
- The agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan on free trade of June 2, 1997 and the Protocol on withdrawals from free trade regime to the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan on free trade of June 2, 1997;
- The agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Azerbaijan Republic on free trade of June 10, 1997 and the Protocol on withdrawals from free trade regime to the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Azerbaijan Republic on free trade of June 10, 1997;
- The agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Republic of Belarus on free trade of September 23, 1997;
- The agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of Georgia on free trade of November 11, 1997 and the Protocol on withdrawals from free trade regime to the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of Georgia on free trade of November 11, 1997;
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