Duties and the Customs Code
The Customs Code of 2008 sets ad valorem duties in three bands. There is no value added tax in the Zone; sales tax of 12% is collected separately by the State Tax Service.
| 0% | Basic foodstuffs, medicines, fuel for heating, machinery for the Zone's industry |
|---|---|
| 5% | Raw materials, building materials, vehicles and parts |
| 10% | Other goods, including tobacco, alcohol, clothing and electronics |
Work out the duty
Choose the goods and enter their value. The value is converted to som at the official rate of the day, as the Code requires.
Customs exchange rates
This is a guide. The duty due is the one assessed by the customs officer on the declaration. Goods under a regime (the Talas Free Economic Trade Zone, transit, the bases) pay no duty while the regime applies.
Regimes
Talas Free Economic Trade Zone
Goods brought into the TAEZ for processing or re-export are free of duty while they stay in it. Duty is paid when they leave for the Zone's market.
Goods for the United States bases
Free of duty. Resale outside the bases makes the goods liable to duty.
Transit
Goods crossing the Zone under customs seal pay no duty. See Transit and the Terminal.
Export duty on antimony
Antimony concentrate pays an export duty. Ore and concentrate leave only with papers from a licensed works.
Goods for Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan treats goods from the Zone as coming from outside its customs territory, and has applied the common external tariff of the Eurasian customs union to them since 2010. Exporters should allow for Kazakh duty as well as Iradi formalities.
Importing for a business
Licences, sanitary passports and the other papers needed before goods can be imported are listed step by step in the procedures guide on e-Irad.