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President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has signed a decree aimed at regulating exports and promoting high-value-added production, according to the Customs Committee's press service.
The decree seeks to streamline export procedures, encourage the production of finished goods using local raw materials, and enhance the investment appeal of Uzbekistan’s processing industries.
Starting July 1, Uzbekistan will introduce export customs duties on 86 types of goods, replacing sectoral levies and special export permits. The affected goods include:
- Raw leather and leather semi-finished products, raw silk, cotton yarn, and knitted fabrics (previously subject to export fees collected by industry associations).
- Meat products, wheat, grain, rice, mineral fertilizers, leather raw materials, polyethylene waste (PET), and non-ferrous metal scrap (previously exportable only with presidential or government approval).
- Natural gas, cotton fiber, cotton linters, mineral fertilizers, polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), PVC, and copper raw materials (subject to duties to support domestic processing industries and high-value manufacturing in Uzbekistan).
President Mirziyoyev has repeatedly emphasized the need to incentivize businesses to focus on value-added production. With Uzbekistan’s population expected to reach 41 million by 2030 and the economy projected to grow by 1.5 times, authorities plan to generate $45 billion in industrial added value over the next five years.
