Kazakhstan's Trade Minister consults with 20 major food import giants: Fully stabilize prices before the festival

Published Dec 5, 2025

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Core tip: The Minister of Trade and Integration of Kazakhstan, Arman Shakaliyev, chaired a special meeting in Astana with representatives from the country's 20 largest food importers and from the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the State Revenue Committee, the Financial Monitoring Agency, and other departments to jointly assess the current situation, with a focus on deploying work to stabilize food prices and ensure market supply during the festive period.

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The meeting pointed out that the current society is highly concerned about food price trends, and the government and enterprises must further strengthen their collaboration to ensure sufficient supply and smooth logistics during the festive season, and resolutely curb unreasonable price hikes. Minister Almaz Shakariyev emphasized that during the peak period of seasonal demand, maintaining reasonable inventory, optimizing rapid logistics, and preventing price gouging are particularly crucial. He called for closer coordination mechanisms between various departments and enterprises, enhanced market dynamic monitoring, and timely identification and handling of potential issues to jointly safeguard the basic stability of prices for socially significant goods. The participants exchanged in-depth views on the current market supply and demand situation, price trends, and potential risks, and reached a preliminary consensus on joint measures to reduce end-consumer ...

Source: Foodmate