{"id":18849,"date":"2026-08-01T09:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T09:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/01\/afghanistan-uzbekistan-trade-1-2-billion-taliban\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T09:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T09:30:19","slug":"afghanistan-uzbekistan-trade-1-2-billion-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/01\/afghanistan-uzbekistan-trade-1-2-billion-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Administration Reports Afghanistan-Uzbekistan Trade Reaches $1.2 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Industry and Trade has announced that trade between Afghanistan and Uzbekistan reached nearly $1.2 billion in the past calendar year. However, this figure remains significantly below the declared capacities and targets set by the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, Uzbekistan is Afghanistan&#8217;s third-largest export market, with Afghan exports to Uzbekistan amounting to $151 million last year. This indicates a trade balance heavily in favor of Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n<p>The Chamber of Commerce and Investment has also reported that the private sectors of both countries signed nearly 290 agreements and memorandums of understanding this year, with a total value of $4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban officials stated that both sides are striving to raise the level of trade exchanges to $5 billion in the coming years through cooperation in energy, transit, industry, and investment. Achieving this goal depends on improving infrastructure and the practical conditions for trade between the two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban ministry reports Afghanistan-Uzbekistan trade reached $1.2 billion last year, with plans to boost it to $5 billion through enhanced cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18849","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\/18849","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=18849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}