An information portal on the facilitation of cross-border trade procedures launched in Kazakhstan

The new online platform tradeinfo.kz provides step-by-step information on cross-border trading procedures and makes it more accessible for businesses. The portal describes in detail all import, export, and transit formalities, required documents, forms, and procedures. At the moment, the portal describes procedures for more than 50 products.

The trade portal of Kazakhstan is one of the components of the Ready4Trade-Central Asia project. Similar portals have already been implemented in 30 countries around the world. There are such projects in Central Asia – Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan will be the next countries where they plan to launch trade portals.

The Trade Portal is not only a business reference tool that consolidates information from all regulatory authorities on commercial formalities, but it also offers a range of trade facilitation benefits. In particular, the portal allows you to identify and measure the complexity of commercial formalities faced by businesses, identify procedures and requirements that are potentially redundant and create unnecessary delays, set targets for streamlining and reducing cross-border transactions, and measure the impact of business reforms aimed at improving trade procedures.