After becoming an independent country, Kazakhstani government followed a policy of strategic integration with world markets and economic liberalization. Leadership of the country regarded integration as a necessity for the economy and as a part of the modern trend of globalization. President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, was the initiator of the Customs Union formation, even though the predicted benefits for the Kazakhstani economy weren’t significant. President Nazarbayev explained that the integration of 3 countries would make a new market of 180 million people instead of 17 million and therefore foreign investments could be attracted. Also, he made a point that removal of customs tariffs between 3 states would develop opportunities for Kazakh producers as their goods would be cheaper and more competitive in Russia and Belorussia and the transportation cost of oil and gas would become lower. Another point that Nazarbayev made for creation of the Customs Union was that the competition between 3 counties would become stronger and this will propel Kazakhstani producers. Apart from eliminating customs between countries, one of the main issues which three governments are working on is to expand integration through trade facilitation. It can be achieved by cost reduction in other aspects of trade between 3 countries – such as reducing bureaucratic barriers and number of required documentations. Also, reduction of nontariff barriers (NTBs) is one of the major areas on which governments are working on in order to deepen integration. However, technical regulations like sanitary and phyto-sanitary (SPS) are still preventing some of the Kazakhstani exports into the Russian market. For example, Russia has imposed restrictions for th... ... middle of paper ... ...oms union. The reason of that is an increase of the external tariff from an average of 6.8% to 11.2%. It also harmed some of the Kazakhstani producers who had previously used parts of the abroad outputs for their final goods as it became more expensive for them to buy due to higher external tariffs. Overall, Kazakhstani real return on capital has been put down by 0.6% and real wages by 0.5%. The Customs Union formation also leads to a loss of productivity gains for Kazakhstan in the long term, as the country trades less with the rest of the world and only focuses on the partnership in trade with Russia, Belorussia and the rest of the Commonwealth Independent States (CIS). Kazakhstan alienate the opportunity of beneficial trade as there will be less imported technology and innovations coming from technologically advanced European Union and other developed countries.
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