KAZNEX Bridge to World Markets

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KAZNEX Bridge to World Markets
DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTION OF NON-PRIMARY EXPORTS
IN KAZAKHSTAN (Tel-Aviv, May 6, 2009) Mrs. S.
Akhmetova, Deputy Chairman, KAZNEX
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KAZAKHSTAN TRADE
Share in GDP,
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Kazakhstan exports profile (USD bln.)
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Kazakhstan Israel trade, 2007-2008USD, mln
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Corporation for Export Development And Promotion
KAZNEX
INFORMATION SUPPORT
KAZAKHSTAN PRODUCE PROMOTION
Key areas of KAZNEX activity
EXPORT CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT
INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Corporation for Export Development And Promotion
KAZNEX

• Non-financial service support institution
• Commissioned by the Government of Kazakhstan
  (Ministry of Industry and Trade)
• Established in February, 2008
• Daughter of Sovereign Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna
• Mission to become a driving force in building
  conducive institutional support system
• Role Networking among private and public sector

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KAZNEX is service support institution

• Principles
• Client oriented
• World best practice
• Bottom-up approaches
• Participatory
• Non-competing with private sector
• Committed beneficiaries
• Balance of interests (national and sector
  specific, inter-sector, big and small companies)
• Clients
• Existing exporters
• Exporters seeking to export
• Companies having export potential

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Outcomes of the 1St year of operations

• Export development
• Diagnosed 238 productions throughout country
• Assessed export readiness and rated 75 companies,
  involving foreign expertise
• Needs assessment and training for 10 labs for
  international accreditation
• First annual publications (English and Russian)
  Export Products of Kazakhstan, 2008 and
  Exporters of Kazakhstan, 2008
• Web-site www.exporter.kz part of Trade portal
  run by MIT RK
• First catalogue of training service providers
  (Kazakh and Russian)
• 6 guides on the export-related issues (What is
  international lab accreditation, how to start
  market analysis, other)

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Outcomes of the 1St year of operations

• Export promotion
• Visits of foreign production sites (100 managers)
  in 9 countries to see how it should be
• Focal points for business associations in 4
  countries (Russia, Moscow China, Bejing
  Germany, Berlin Turkey, Istanbul)
• Foreign directories circulated in 5 regions
  Asia, Eastern and Western Europe, CIS and Moscow

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Outcomes of the 1St year of operations

• Institutional development
• Analysis of obstacles to export development and
  promotion
• Initiatives on improving trade procedures
• Training for associations
• Legal initiatives on improving trade law

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Outcomes of the 1St year of operations

• International cooperation
• MOU over 20 foreign partners
• Members ITC (UNCTSAD/WTO) TPO network ECO TPO
  network
• KOICA/KOTRA project (completed)
• export support system research (Korea, Malaysia,
  Australia, Singapore)
• Special Economic Zone research (Korea, China,
  India, UAE)
• Export Guide
• 10 pilot training courses
• Training
• KOTRA project Strenghening branding power of
  Kazakhstan
• JICA/JETRO KAZNEX capacity building
• ITC Training, TradeMAP
• IDB Exit to sea

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CONTACTS

• Republic of Kazakhstan, 010000
• Astana, 10 Sagynak, Block B, 6th floor
• Department for customers services
• Tel. [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• e-mail client_at_kaznex.kz
• Representative office in Almaty
• Republic of Kazakhstan, 050004
• Almaty, 111, Gogol street, 5th floor
• Tel. [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• www.kaznex.kz

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• Thank You for Your time!