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Development of economic and commercial relations with Kazakhstan is priority in foreign relations strategy of CCIB
The development of economic and commercial relations with Kazakhstan is a priority in the foreign relations strategy of Bucharest Chamber of Trade and Industry (CCIB), said Sorin Dimitriu, the president of the Chamber, at the meeting with Daulet Batrashev, the ambassador of Kazakhstan in Romania.
“CCIB president Sorin Dimitriu had a meeting with Daulet Batrashev, the ambassador of Kazakhstan in Romania, who was accompanied by Chingiz Kemel, first secretary of the Embassy,” a CCIB press release shows.
According to the president of the Chamber, the organization of a “Week of Kazakhstan products in Romania,” in Bucharest, followed by an economic mission headed by CCIB in Kazakhstan could set up excellent formulas to better know the companies of the two countries, for the identification of business and investment opportunities, as well as projects with real chances of completion and with benefits for both parties.
“We take into account the opening of a representative office in your country by CCIB, doubled by a permanent exhibition with products and services offered by Romanian companies, according to a model successfully tested in Persian Gulf countries,” Dimitriu declared.
Daulet Batrashev appreciated the Romanian market potential and expressed his country’s interest for the development of economic and cooperation relations with Romania. The ambassador of Kazakhstan expressed full opening for the projects presented by the president of CCIB, pointing out the need to identify fields of interest for companies of the two countries.
Daulet Batrashev pointed out the fact that Romanian businessmen interested in investing in Kazakhstan benefit from access to markets of the Euro-Asian Economic Union member countries (Kazakhstan, Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan).
In the first 11 months of 2017, Romania-Kazakhstan commercial exchanges amounted to 1.152 billion dollars, on the rise by 31% compared to the same period of 2016, of which imports from Kazakhstan amounted to 1.122 billion dollars (+36.9% against the previous year), while Romanian exports were 30 million dollars (-49.6% against the same period of 2016). 95.3% of imports represents crude brought from Kazakhstan to be processed at Rompetrol Refinery in Navodari.