Kyrgyzstan’s Foreign Trade Turnover Hits $1 Billion

Kyrgyzstan’s Foreign Trade Turnover Hits $1 Billion

Kyrgyzstan’s international commerce quantity reached $1,052.9 billion in January 2026, marking a 2% improve in comparison with January 2025, based on the National Statistical Committee, The Caspian Post reviews, citing Middle Kyrgyz.

Sharp drop in exports

As within the earlier yr, January 2026 noticed a major decline in exports of 20.3 %, totaling solely $126.8 million.

Imports elevated by 6.1 %, reaching $926.1 million.

Kyrgyzstan stays extremely depending on imports: international commerce accounts for 88 % of its whole commerce turnover.

• The National Statistical Committee all the time reviews Kyrgyzstan’s international commerce turnover outcomes with a one-month delay.

Factors inflicting export decline

Since the start of 2026, the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan you’ve got reintroduced bans on the export of varied items from the nation. These embody scrap steel, waste paper, and livestock. Furthermore, following adjustments to rules in Russia, Kyrgyz exporters, together with garment producers, skilled issues supplying merchandise to the Russian Federation. In February, Kyrgyzstan’s authorities introduced that a few of the issues on this space had been resolved.

Trade with EAEU nations

The scenario with commerce with nations of the Eurasian Economic Union is best. Trade turnover with EAEU nations in January 2026 amounted to $396.8 million, an 11.3 % improve in comparison with January 2024. However, an imbalance continues to be evident:

• exports to union nations decreased by 15.7 % (totaling $1,152 billion);
• import revenues elevated by 17.8 % ($4,772.1 billion).

Of the republic’s whole commerce turnover, mutual commerce with EAEU nations accounted for 37.7 %, exports – for 45.4 % and imports for 36.6 %.

Russia accounted for the biggest share of Kyrgyzstan’s mutual commerce inside the Eurasian Economic Union (68.6 %), adopted by Kazakhstan (29 %).