In five and a half years, customs duties have exceeded the total collected over the previous 30 years

From 2021 up to and including July 2026, Kyrgyzstan’s budget received 619.1 billion KGS in customs duties. This exceeds the total revenue collected over the previous 30 years, according to data from the State Customs Service. Dairbek Orunbekov, Head of the Information Policy Service at the Presidential Administration, wrote about this on his Facebook page.

According to his information, between 1991 and 2020, the Customs Service transferred a total of 452.7 billion KGS to the state budget. Consequently, over the past five and a half years, revenue has been 166.4 billion KGS, or 36.8 per cent, higher than the figure for the entire preceding 30-year period.

This growth was recorded despite a reduction in some of the Customs Service’s functions following Kyrgyzstan’s accession to the Eurasian Economic Union in 2015.

Following accession to the EAEU, the agency ceased to administer customs payments totalling approximately 18 billion KGS. Control over goods imported from Russia, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Belarus, as well as the administration of the relevant payments, was transferred to the State Tax Service.