NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Kazakhstan cannot import products that are worse in quality and more expensive than foreign analogues, Minister of Trade and Integration Bakhyt Sultanov said at a press conference in the Government on September 9, the press service of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
“This goal is a red thread through the plans for the development of the Kazakhstani economy, which were announced in the election program of the President and the recent Address to the people of Kazakhstan. Therefore, we emphasized the sphere of technical regulation,” said Sultanov.
The minister proposed to ban the import of goods that did not pass quality confirmation according to the technical requirements of Kazakhstan.
For example, under the existing conditional release procedure, a product passes customs clearance with an obligation to pass a test within 2 months and receive a certificate of conformity. But in the end, imported products often avoid the certification procedure and simply “dissolve” in the Kazakhstani market.
“Therefore, the Ministry of Trade and Integration is proposing to cancel the conditional release procedure. It is assumed that the technical regulation system will prevent distributors, resellers from bringing low-quality goods, buying ‘gray’ certificates on the market,” the minister said.
In addition, the minister proposed to put a barrier to such “imported garbage” and prohibit the import of products without preliminary tests. That is, importers will have to first confirm the quality of goods they want to bring to the Kazakhstan market and their compliance with the technical requirements of Kazakhstan, and only then get the right for the goods to cross the border.
Sultanov said that the appropriate infrastructure will be created: laboratories and accreditation centers will be built both in Kazakhstan and abroad, so that the goods of bona fide suppliers freely pass through all the control and supervision bodies.
