The Minister of Industry and Construction of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kanat Sharlapayev reported on full utilisation of domestic enterprises of the manufacturing industry at the Government session, El.kz cites primeminister.kz.
According to the results of the first half of 2024 in the manufacturing industry there is a growth of 5.1%. The main indicators - in ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy, chemical, machine-building industries and furniture production.
According to the Minister of Industry, it is planned to ensure positive dynamics in the main sectors of the manufacturing industry by the end of the year. The key mechanism for achieving this goal is to support domestic production.
For this purpose, legislative changes have been adopted. Thus, the list of domestic goods, which have priority in public procurement, has been expanded. The mechanism for concluding offtake contracts has been elaborated.
In the construction of facilities at the expense of the state budget, control over the use of goods produced in Kazakhstan has been introduced.
In the procurement of subsoil users of solid minerals, a measure has been introduced to conclude contracts for the supply of domestic goods in the procurement of works and services. In the procurement of hydrocarbon raw materials and uranium subsoil users, requirements for the purchase of domestic goods have been established.
In the procurement of natural monopolies, a priority purchase of domestic goods has been established by reducing the bid price by 10%.
Changes were also made to the procurement rules of the Samruk-Kazyna Fund. The terms of long-term contracts and off-take contracts have been improved.
"It should be noted that one of the positive results of the ongoing work is the growth of production in the manufacturing industry by 4% and a decrease in imports by 7%. Decrease in the volume of imported products is observed in the industries of mechanical engineering, metal products, paper products," Kanat Sharlapayev noted.