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Kazakhstan Free zones, Special economic zones

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Official Terms for Free Zones Year of promulgation of the first text of law concerning the Free Zones Free zones, Special economic zones 1996

Possibility to be established as Exact number of Free Zones Free Points 10 No

Table of contents

Free Zones...... 4 General information...... 4 List of operating Free Zones...... 6 Contacts...... 10 Free Zones Web sites selection...... 11

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RUSSIA

Burabay Pavlodar Astana-new city Astana Saryarka MONGOLIA KAZAKHSTAN National Industrial Petrochemical Technology Park

Khorgos - Seaport Aktau Chemical Park Taraz Eastern Gates

Ontustik Innovative Technologies Park Bishkek GEORGIA UZBEKISTAN AZERBAIJAN Tashkent ARMENIA TURKMENISTAN TAJIKISTAN Ashgabat Dushanbe

Teheran IRAN IRAQ AFGHANISTAN PAKISTAN Kabul INDIA FREE ZONES IN KAZAKHSTAN 300 km International borders Elevations (meters) Cities 0 200 500 1000 Free Zones

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FREE ZONES

General information Official definition “Special economic zone - a territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan with exactly marked borders, on which a special legal regime shall be organized to carry out priority activities.” Source: http://adilet.zan.kz/eng/docs/Z1100000469

Number of free zones 10 Special economic zones (SEZ)

Number of active compa- 148 active companies nies in Free Zones

Main sectors of activity Enterprises of cotton production, textile and clothing industry, production, transportation and processing of oil and gas, petrochemical industry, metal- lurgical industry and the metal processing industry, aviation, chemical, light industry, automobile manufacturing, instrumentation, etc.

Total job numbers 10 000 persons

Distribution of investors No information

Exports and sales No information

Free zones contribution No information to the national economy

Corporate Tax and Incen- The following privileges shall be provided for all SEZ participants: tives • exemption from corporate income tax (CIT); • exemption from land tax; • exemption from property tax; • exemption from value added tax (VAT)on all implementation activity within the territory of SEZ , on all goods completely consumed in the production process.

There are additional tax benefits for SEZ “Innovation Technology Park” partici- pants: • exemption from social tax for 5 years, on the condition that labor costs amount to not less than 50% of annual revenue and 90% of labor payments are expended on residents of RK • organization that is registered in Kazakhstan and located out of SEZ «ITP» before 1 January 2015 , shall be considered asa SEZ participant, if it: -- has no structural subdivisions; -- at least 70 percent of total annual income is income receivable (received) from the sale of self-produced goods, works and services from the following activities: -- design, development , implementation , pilot production and production of software, databases and hardware of informa- tion technologies as well as data center services and on-line services; -- Execution of research and development work on the creation and implementation of projects in the field of information technologies.

Conditions for tax benefits: 1. registration as a taxpayer within SEZ territory; 4 WFZO Index cards - Kazakhstan

2. registration as a SEZ participant; 3. absence of structural subdivisions outside the SEZ; 4. income from the sale of own-produced goods by the priority activities of SEZ shall be at least 90 percent of the total annual income (for SEZ «ITP» - 70%).

CUSTOMS PRIVILEGES For goods imported into SEZ territory Exemption from customs duties For goods exported from SEZ territory* • CU commodities exported from the SEZ to the rest territory of the Customs Union, are not subject to customs duties. • CU commodities exported from the SEZ territory to outside the Customs Union, are subject to the payment of export customs duties. • Foreign commodities with no status as CU goods (simple assembly) ex- ported from the SEZ to the rest territory of Customs Union, are subject to the payment of customs duties. • In the case of foreign commodities which are not used and not processed within SEZ territory, at export (to the third countries), the commodities are exempted from «re-export» customs duties. • In a case of foreign commodities processed within SEZ territory, at export,, export duties shall be paid according to the regulation # 520 of the Govern- ment of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 07.06.2010. • More detailed information concerning customs benefits are reflected in the Agreement on the free (special) economic zones in the customs territory of the customs union and the customs procedure of customs-free zone (St. Petersburg, June 18, 2010).

* These benefits are applicable by January 1, 2017 only for participants registered be- fore January 1, 2012

Free Zone law Law of July 21, 2011 No. 469-IV «On special economic zones in the conditions. Republic of Kazakhstan» http://adilet.zan.kz/eng/docs/Z1100000469

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List of operating Free Zones Name Location Surface area Contacts Observations

SEZ “As- Astana city 7 634,71 ha Management of Opened in 2002 (Term: 2027). tana-new administration of Priority activities: manufacture of other city” special economic non-metallic mineral products; manufacture zone Astana – New of machinery and equipment; manufacture of City. household electrical appliances; manufacture Tel: +7 of rubber and plastic products; manufacture (7172)703303 of chemicals and chemical products; metal- E-mail: sezastana@ lurgical industry; manufacture of electrical mail.ru equipment, including electrical lighting www.sez.astana.kz equipment; manufacture of glass components http://invest.gov.kz/ for lighting; food production; manufacture of pages/sez pulp, paper and paper board; manufacture of furniture; manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers; manufacture of railway locomotives and rolling stock; manu- facture of air and space craft; manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and prepara- tions; manufacture of electronic components; construction and commissioning of infrastruc- ture items, hospitals, clinics, schools, kin- dergartens, museums, theatres, universities and colleges, libraries, palaces school, sports complexes, office and residential complexes in accordance with the project estimates.

SEZ Mangistau Six sub-zones Direct Line Inves- Since January 1, 2003 (Term: 2018). “Seaport region, Aktau covering the tors 30 registered participants, 14 implemented Aktau” city . total area of + 7 (7292) 30-27- projects, 2 projects. 2000 ha(by 72 Presidential Priority activities: production of household Decree no. “SEZ “Seaport appliances; production of leather and related 702 dated Aktau” Managing products; production of chemical industry November 28, Company” JSC. products; manufacture of rubber and plastic 2008) Tel +7 (7292) 30 goods; manufacture of other nonmetallic 27 77 mineral products; metallurgical industry; pro- e-mail: [email protected] duction of finished metal products; manufac- www.sez.kz ture of machinery and equipment; production Moldabekova of petrochemicals; stores and sub loop acti- Aigerim vity; manufacture of main drug products and Language: Kazakh, medicaments; manufacture of electric motors, English, Russian generators, transformers, power distributing EMail: a.moldabe- and controlling apparatus; manufacture of [email protected] electric wiring and electrically conductive Tel. :Phone: +7 devices; construction and commissioning of (7292) 302-772 objects, designed for implementation of acti- Position: Director vities in accordance with design and estimate http://www.sez.kz/ documentation. en/

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SEZ “In- 343 ha (3 JSC Management Opened in 2003 (Term 2028). novative region sub-zones, 1 Company Special 58 companies are producing more than 500 Technolo- already fully Economic Zone kinds of products and services, including 14 gies Park” occupied) Park Innovative companies with foreign participation (Russia, Technologies» South Korea, Israel, China, Germany, and Italy) Code: 050032 and the 35 companies operating on the prin- Almaty, Medeu ciple of extraterritoriality. area, md. Alatau, Priority activities: information technology; Ibragimova, 9 technology in the field of telecommunica- Tel.: +7 727 320-18- tions and communications; electronics and 56, +7 727 320- instrumentation; renewable energy, resource 18-57. conservation and efficient use of natural Email: info@sezpit. resources; kz, monitoring. technology in the creation and application of [email protected] materials for different purposes; technology Web Site: www. in the field of production, transportation and sezpit.kz processing of oil and gas.

Tel.: +7 (727) 320 18 25 [email protected]

SEZ “On- South-Ka- 200 ha. SEZ “Ontustik Ma- Opened in 2005 (Term 2013) tustik” zakhstan re- naging Company” Priority activities: gion, sayram JSC production of finished textiles, except for district. Tel: +7 (7252) 92- clothes; manufacture of other knitting and 11-02, +7 (7252) knitwear; manufacture of clothes, except for 92-11-04 fur and leather garments; spinning, weaving E-mail: ao_sez@ and finishing works; production of nonwo- mail.ru ven fabrics, except for clothes; production of www.sez-ontustik. carpets and rugs; production of ground wood kz and cellulose; production of paper and paper- board; production of leather products, except for leather tanning and currying; fur manufac- turing and coloring; production of stationary.

SEZ Atyrau re- 3 475,9 ha “SEZ “National Opened in 2007 (Term: 2032) “National gion industrial petro- Priority activities: develop and implement Industrial chemical technolo- breakthrough investment projects to build Petro- gy park” Managing and develop a world-class petrochemical chemical Company” JSC. plants for intensive processing of hydro- Technolo- tel: +7 (7122) 20 93 carbon raw materials and production of a gy Park” 15/ 20 34 55 comprehensive and competitive range of pe- E-mail: atyrau_ trochemical products with high added value; [email protected] attracting investment in the construction and development of an integrated petrochemical industry based on public-private partnerships; construction of new interconnected, highly innovative petrochemical plants; promoting and creating conditions for the integration of the Kazakh petrochemical products into the global system of production and marketing, creating innovative, competitive domestic petrochemical products in accordance with international standards (ISO); development and implementation of research and scienti- fic and technological innovation projects to establish and develop petrochemical produc- tion and treatment technologies, including the deep processing of hydrocarbon raw materials; training and retraining personnel to an internationally recognized professional standards for the petrochemical industry.

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SEZ “Bu- Akmola 370 ha. Territorial de- Opened in 2008 (Term: 2017). rabay” region, Bu- partment of the Priority activities: provision of tourist services; rabay district tourism industry construction and commissioning of tourist ac- committee of commodation, health and well-being facilities the ministry of under the following conditions: constructed industry and new and commissioned structures which are not technologies related to gambling; construction and com- of the Republic missioning to be carried out in accordance of Kazakhstan - with design specifications and estimates. administration of special economic zone-Burabay. Tel: 8 (71636) 2-29-66; 8 (71636) 2-30-75 E-mail: sez_bu- [email protected] www.sezburabay.kz http://invest.gov.kz/ pages/sez

SEZ “Sa- Karaganda 534,9 ha Karaganda invest Opened in 2011. Term: 20136 Priority ac- ryarka” region,- JSC. tivities: development of the metallurgical Bukhar-zhyra Tel: +7 (7212) 40 industry and the metal processing industry, in district 09 83 particular the production of finished products E-mail: aokaragan- by encouraging the producers of worldwide dainvest@gmail. brands to participate; develop and implement com breakthrough investment projects to build http://invest.gov.kz/ and develop a world-class petrochemical pages/sez plants for intensive processing of hydro- carbon raw materials and production of a comprehensive and competitive range of pe- trochemical products with high added value; development and implementation of research and scientific and technological innovation projects to establish and develop petroche- mical production and treatment technologies, including deep processing of hydrocarbon raw materials; investment in the construction and development of an integrated petro- chemical industry based on public-private partnerships.

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SEZ “Pa- Pavlodar 3 300 ha SEZ Pavlodar Ma- Opened in 2011 (term/ 2036) vlodar” region naging company” Priority activities: JSC. development of chemical and petrochemical Tel: +7(7182) 66 industries, in particular the production of 06 26 export products with high added value, with E-mail: aouk- the use of high-tech environmentally frien- sezpavlodar@mail. dly modern technologies; development and ru implementation of breakthrough investment projects, research and scientific and techno- logical innovation projects for the creation and development of chemical and petroche- mical industries in the deep processing of raw materials and the production of a broad competitive products with high added value; creation of highly efficient and innovative pro- duction for the development of chemical and petrochemical industries, including high tech and competitive industries and the develop- ment of new products; creation of a favorable investment climate and attraction of domestic and foreign investment, including the imple- mentation of investment projects and the development of the chemical and petroche- mical industries on the basis of public-private partnership.

SEZ “Khor- Total area JSC the Khorgos The Khorgos International Centre of Boundary “Khor- gos” ICBC covered by International Cooperation JSC is a public company establi- gos — consists the “Khorgos” Centre of Boun- shed under the Agreements between the Go- Eastern of the International dary Cooperation vernment of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Gates” two parts: Centre of Address: 28 Ten Government of the People’s Republic of China Kazakhstan Border Coo- In Ger, Golo- for the purpose of creation of the Khorgos International Center for Transfrontier Coope- part – lo- peration is vatsky , ration at the Kazakhstan and China border in cated in the 560 hectares Panfilovsky the Panfilov district of Almaty region. territory of of which district, Almaty Panfilovskiy 217 hectares Region, Republic Priority activities: creation of an effective raiyon of Al- belongs to of Kazakhstan transport and logistics and industrial center, matinskaya Kazakhstan, Tel./Fax: +7 ensuring the interests of trade and export oblast; and and 343 (72831) 3 63 11, 3 activities and the implementation creation of China part hectares – to 63 12, 3 63 13 potential transit facilities within Kazakhstan, – located in China. The Email: ao_ as well as contributing to the development the territory communica- mcpshorgos@ of economic and cultural exchanges with of the -Ka- tion between mail.ru neighboring countries; implementation of the zakh Au- two parts is integration of Kazakhstan into the global sys- tem of production and distribution, creation tonomous through the http://www. of innovative, competitive domestic products Prefecture special pe- mcps-khorgos. in accordance with international standards. of – destrian and kz/en Uyghur Au- transporta- tonomous tion corridor. Region “Khorgos”. http://www. mcps-khor- gos.kz/en/ project/geo- graphical

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SEZ Zhambyl 505 ha. “SEZ “Chemical Opened in 2012 (Term 2037). “Chemi- region, shu Park Taraz” Mana- Priority activities: manufacture of chemicals cal Park district ging company” and chemical products; manufacture of Taraz” JSC. rubber and plastic products; manufacture of Tel: +7 (72643) 6 other non-metal mineral products; manu- 21 31 facture of machinery and equipment for the chemical industry; construction in accordance e-mail: S.Esim- with design specifications, estimates and baeva@seztaraz. commissioning on the basis of acceptance kz from the act of state acceptance commission www.seztaraz.kz of industrial facilities, specifically designed for the production of chemicals and chemical products, rubber and plastic products, as well as other non-metal mineral products, ma- chinery and equipment for the purposes of chemical productions. Source: http://invest.gov.kz/pages/sez http://www.kaznexinvest.kz/en/SEZ/economic_zones.php And others Note: In the period of 2017-2018, infrastructure of all SEZ’s would be finished and ready for exploitation http://www.kaznexinvest.( kz/en/SEZ/economic_zones.php)

Contacts Ministry of Investments and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan 32/1 Kabanbay Batyr Avenue, Astana Reception: Tel.: +7 (7172) 55-77-74; Chancellery: +7 (7172) 24-12-13

Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan 8 Orynbor Str., House of Ministries, Entrance 10, Astana Reception Tel/+7 (7172) 74-28-09, 74-37-98

Investor Service Centers Social Entrepreneurial Corporation «Essil» JSC Tel: +7 (7162) 72 13 72, +7 (7162) 72 14 41 Email: [email protected] - Website: www.spk-esil.kz

Kaznex Invest Head Office 2nd floor, «Ansar» Business Center, 25 Syganak Street, Astana, 010000, Republic of Kazakhstan» Tel: + 7 (7172) 91 90 40 Fax: +7 (7172) 91 90 50 [email protected] - [email protected]

The Kazakhstan Foreign Investors’ Council Association Director Zhanna Baidasheva, Manager Elmira Pistayeva, Coordinator Saniya Askarova «Kaskad» Business Centre, 3rd floor, office 31/2 6/1 Kabanbay Batyr Ave., 010000 Astana Republic of Kazakhstan Tel.: +7 (7172) 925 550 - Fax: +7 (7172) 925 553 E-mail: [email protected]

Invest in Kazakhstan Mr. Rakhat Mukhtarov Managing Director Tel.: +7 (7172) 91 90 40 (ext. 1112) [email protected]

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Free Zones Web sites selection • http://www.sez.kz/en/ • http://www.kaznexinvest.kz/en/SEZ/economic_zones.php • http://www.aitc.kz/en/ • http://www.mcps-khorgos.kz/ • http://invest.gov.kz/pages/uchastniki-sez • http://www.atyrau-sez.kz/ • http://invest.gov.kz/ • http://www.dbk.kz/en/about/

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