Department of State Revenues for the East Kazakhstan region of the Republic of Kazakhstan published information on the lifting of the ban on the import of certain types of cement into the country. The ban included clinker, ordinary Portland cement, other Portland cements, alumina cement, other hydraulic cements.
The ban was introduced by order of the acting Minister of Industry and Infrastructural Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated April 9, 2020 No. 191 "On some issues of regulation of the import of certain types of cement." The ban on the import of these products has been in effect from April 27 to October 27 and did not apply to the EAEU countries: Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Russia.
The main export partners of Kazakhstani cement enterprises are Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. The volume of cement production in the republic in September showed a steady growth.
The cement industry of the republic is represented by 17 integrated enterprises. At the end of last year, a plant with a capacity of 1 million tpa was commissioned in the Shieli district of the Kyzylorda region in the south-west of the country. The investor was a Chinese company.
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