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Trade between Kazakhstan and the United States

In 2024, Kazakhstan exported $2.4 billion to the United States and imported $2.1 billion. Kazakhstan ran a surplus of $262 million with the United States, compared with a deficit of $125 million in 2019. The United States was Kazakhstan’s 9th largest trading partner (3% of its trade), and Kazakhstan was the United States’ 70th (0.1%).

Summary

Kazakhstan → United States
$2.4billion
United States → Kazakhstan
$2.1billion
Kazakhstan’s balance
$262million

Balance

Kazakhstan’s trade balance with the United States

Trade between Kazakhstan and the United States grew 23.4-fold since 1995

USD billions (current). Kazakhstan’s exports and imports; bars: its balance (green surplus, red deficit).

  • Exports 2.4
  • Imports 2.1
  • Balance +0.3

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$130 million$63 million$68 million
1996$116 million$130 million-$14 million
1997$118 million$254 million-$136 million
1998$167 million$274 million-$107 million
1999$239 million$175 million$64 million
2000$453 million$133 million$319 million
2001$401 million$345 million$56 million
2002$302 million$651 million-$349 million
2003$322 million$468 million-$146 million
2004$491 million$559 million-$67 million
2005$1.1 billion$1.2 billion-$109 million
2006$1.1 billion$1.1 billion-$14 million
2007$1.1 billion$1.6 billion-$488 million
2008$1.4 billion$1.8 billion-$456 million
2009$1.1 billion$1.3 billion-$227 million
2010$1.6 billion$1.3 billion$364 million
2011$1.5 billion$1.6 billion-$156 million
2012$977 million$1.7 billion-$704 million
2013$874 million$1.9 billion-$1 billion
2014$1 billion$1.9 billion-$861 million
2015$795 million$1.4 billion-$561 million
2016$1.2 billion$1.6 billion-$390 million
2017$600 million$1.2 billion-$590 million
2018$1.4 billion$1.2 billion$195 million
2019$1.3 billion$1.4 billion-$125 million
2020$918 million$750 million$168 million
2021$1.4 billion$891 million$501 million
2022$2.4 billion$1.1 billion$1.3 billion
2023$2.2 billion$2.4 billion-$163 million
2024$2.4 billion$2.1 billion$262 million

What they sell each other

What Kazakhstan sells to the United States

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Crude petroleum$1.1 billion · 47.9%
    1.9 million tonnes · Kazakhstan’s destinations
  2. Radioactive elements$313 million · 13.1%
    2 thousand tonnes
  3. Silver$203 million · 8.5%
    232 tonnes · the United States’ sources
  4. Ferroalloys$197 million · 8.3%
    93 thousand tonnes · Kazakhstan’s destinations
  5. Refined petroleum$177 million · 7.4%
    275 thousand tonnes · Kazakhstan’s destinations
  6. Other precious metal articles$157 million · 6.6%
    170 tonnes
  7. Turbojets and gas turbines$37 million · 1.5%
    8 tonnes · the United States’ sources
  8. Cyclic hydrocarbons$34 million · 1.4%
    38 thousand tonnes
  9. Tantalum$18 million · 0.75%
    69 tonnes
  10. Unwrought lead$15 million · 0.65%
    7 thousand tonnes

What the United States sells to Kazakhstan

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Cars$310 million · 14.6%
    50 thousand tonnes · the United States’ destinations
  2. Turbojets and gas turbines$189 million · 8.9%
    58 tonnes · the United States’ destinations
  3. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$94 million · 4.5%
    80 tonnes · the United States’ destinations
  4. Airplanes and helicopters$93 million · 4.4%
    215 tonnes · the United States’ destinations
  5. Diesel engines$84 million · 3.9%
    2 thousand tonnes
  6. Vaccines, blood and antisera$79 million · 3.7%
    35 tonnes · the United States’ destinations
  7. Poultry meat$64 million · 3%
    47 thousand tonnes · the United States’ destinations
  8. Railway parts$60 million · 2.8%
    1 thousand tonnes
  9. Valves and taps$41 million · 1.9%
    201 tonnes
  10. Medical and dental instruments$39 million · 1.9%
    95 tonnes · the United States’ destinations

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Novorossiysk (Russia) to Los Angeles.

The estimated sea route between Novorossiysk (Russia) and Los Angeles is 9,825 nautical miles (18,196 km) long: ≈ 22.5–29 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Bosporus, Dardanelles, Strait of Gibraltar and Panama Canal.

Kazakhstan is landlocked: it ships through Novorossiysk (Russia).

Sailing estimate without port calls, waiting or transshipment; not a schedule. One main reference port per country: in large countries it does not represent all of its ports.

Split by transport mode

  1. Sea$2.6 billion · 56.7%
  2. Air$2 billion · 43.3%

Mode estimated from value per kilo and geography; both directions together.

How much each matters to the other

The United States was Kazakhstan’s 9th largest trading partner (3% of its trade), and Kazakhstan was the United States’ 70th (0.1%).

The United States in Kazakhstan’s trade
3%
The United States’ rank among Kazakhstan’s partners
9th
Kazakhstan in the United States’ trade
0.1%
Kazakhstan’s rank among the United States’ partners
70th

Compare with

Other partners of Kazakhstan

Other partners of the United States

Sources and methodology

Sources and licenses

Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), in current US dollars, with exports and imports reconciled between countries. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. The sea route comes from our own network derived from World Bank shipping density (not from nautical charts), between one main reference port per country (World Port Index); days are the distance at 14 and 18 knots, without port calls or waiting. Data up to 2024.