{"id":10770,"date":"2026-04-18T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/18\/kazakhstan-increases-trade-afghanistan-3-billion\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T07:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:00:22","slug":"kazakhstan-increases-trade-afghanistan-3-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/18\/kazakhstan-increases-trade-afghanistan-3-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan Aims to Boost Trade with Afghanistan to $3 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kazakh media have reported that Kazakhstan plans to increase its trade volume with Afghanistan from the current approximately $500 million to $3 billion in the coming years. Kazakh officials have stated that strategic planning is underway to expand commercial relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>According to these officials, the majority of the current trade consists of exports from Kazakhstan, including grains, flour, and other agricultural products. In recent years, Afghanistan has become an important market for Kazakh food exports.<\/p>\n<p>Kazakh authorities have emphasized that the lack of transportation and logistics routes is the biggest obstacle to developing trade between the two nations. They have identified the Turgundi-Herat railway project as crucial for expanding bilateral trade; this project could connect Afghanistan to the Central Asian rail network.<\/p>\n<p>Reports also indicate that Kazakhstan views Afghanistan as a key transit corridor that could provide access to South Asian and Middle Eastern markets. However, achieving these goals requires stability, standard infrastructure, and transparent governance within Afghanistan\u2014issues that the Taliban administration is expected to address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kazakhstan plans to increase trade with Afghanistan from $500 million to $3 billion, focusing on agriculture exports and improved logistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}