The United States and Kazakhstan have maintained a strong partnership for 25 years, focusing on trade, security, and nuclear non-proliferation. Key collaborations include joint military exercises, trade of livestock, and support for Kazakhstan's WTO accession. American investments and cooperation on nuclear safeguards have underscored their enduring bilateral relationship.

1. United States
KAZAKHSTAN
Partners in Trade, Security & Nuclear Non-Proliferation for 25 years
The United States was among the first countries to recognize KAZAKHSTAN’S INDEPENDENCE in December 1991.
GENERAL ELECTRIC ships locomotive kits
manufactured in Grove City & Erie, Pennsylvania
to Kazakhstan for final assembly creating high-
quality jobs in both countries.
Kazakhstan annually hosts STEPPE
EAGLE joint counter-terrorism and
peacekeeping exercises between
Kazakh, US and NATO forces. In
Iraq, Kazakhstani forces dismantled
4 MILLION MINES and
Military & Security
Cooperation
explosives.
2010
Kazakhstan - U.S.
two way trade
$0.4
Billion
Kazakhstan is a key implementer
of the NEW SILK ROAD INITIATIVE
that will spur commerce, economic
development and tourism.
NEW SILK ROAD
$24 BILLION
The U.S. supported Kazakhstan's
accession to the WTO, which was
finalized in 2015.
BLACK ANGUS
HEREFORD
North Dakota exports
more than 50,000
head of Black Angus
& Hereford cattle to
Kazakhstan annually through a joint
venture between KAZAKH & U.S.
companies.
The fourth SPD between
Kazakhstan & U.S.
affirms the bilateral
friendship is strong and
based on mutual
understanding & respect.
Since 2005, American
foreign direct investment
into KAZAKHSTAN
Kazakhstan and the National
Nuclear Security Administration
have a long history of collaboration
on nuclear material safeguards and
nonproliferation issues.
has totaled
$1.4
BILLIONexports to US
imports from US
STRATEGIC
PARTNERSHIP
DIALOGUE
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