Steel prices in Kazakhstan — what was actually paid in 2024

Kazakhstan is a freight problem before it is a price problem. Duty-free EAEU supply arrives from the north while anything from Türkiye or Europe crosses the Caucasus or the Caspian, and the cost of that journey is large enough to show up inside the customs unit values on this page.

Last updated 24 September 2026

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2,196,359 tsteel imported (2024)
2,577,687 tsteel exported
Net exporter381,328 t surplus

Imports

What Kazakhstan imported and what it paid, 2024

HS	Product	Tonnes	USD/tonne	Value (USD m)
7214	Hot-rolled bar	603,642	555	334.9
730630	Welded tube, circular, non-alloy	329,577	316	104.3
7208	Hot-rolled coil and plate	293,640	650	190.8
7216	Angles, shapes and sections	286,575	861	246.7
7210	Coated sheet (galvanized and painted)	284,088	741	210.6
730661	Welded hollow section, square and rectangular	168,639	700	118.0
7213	Wire rod	108,746	561	61.1
7217	Wire	89,980	684	61.6
7209	Cold-rolled sheet	20,992	804	16.9
7212	Narrow coated strip	10,480	1,103	11.6

Exports

What Kazakhstan exported and what it received, 2024

HS	Product	Tonnes	USD/tonne	Value (USD m)
7208	Hot-rolled coil and plate	1,120,893	580	649.8
7209	Cold-rolled sheet	539,843	675	364.3
7214	Hot-rolled bar	450,887	585	263.8
7210	Coated sheet (galvanized and painted)	405,411	959	388.7
7216	Angles, shapes and sections	22,794	821	18.7
730630	Welded tube, circular, non-alloy	18,675	644	12.0
7217	Wire	9,173	996	9.1
7213	Wire rod	5,064	578	2.9
730661	Welded hollow section, square and rectangular	4,294	627	2.7
7212	Narrow coated strip	653	1,285	0.8

What the Kazakhstan numbers say

From welded tube, circular, non-alloy at 316 USD per tonne to narrow coated strip at 1,103 is a 3.5× range, and in a landlocked market a meaningful part of it is inland freight rather than product.
Hot-rolled bar is 27 % of the tonnage imported, a concentration that reflects both distance and duty rather than preference.
Lanes are concentrated — Russia holds 89 % of the top five on that heading, which is what tariff-free EAEU access looks like in the numbers.
On coated sheet (galvanized and painted) the gap between 741 paid and 959 received is 218 USD, wide enough that transport costs are doing most of the work.

Buying and selling into Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan sits inside the Eurasian Economic Union, so material from Russia and Belarus arrives duty-free while Turkish steel pays the common external tariff — a structural cost difference that shows in the partner tables rather than in the headline unit value.
Routing from Türkiye runs by sea to Poti or Batumi and then rail or truck across the Caucasus, or all the way overland through Georgia and Azerbaijan with a Caspian crossing. Transit is eighteen to twenty-eight days and freight is a large share of the landed cost.
EAC conformity marking is required for many construction products; documentation is issued against the mill certificate.
Demand is concentrated in Almaty and Astana for construction and in the west for oil and gas fabrication.

Main supplying countries

Hot-rolled bar (HS 7214)

Supplier	Tonnes	USD/tonne
Russia	535,424	562
Kyrgyzstan	65,151	466
China	1,852	1,642
Belarus	1,157	557
Türkiye	44	686

Welded tube, circular, non-alloy (HS 730630)

Supplier	Tonnes	USD/tonne
Russia	326,112	304
China	1,851	1,349
Belarus	861	1,242
Uzbekistan	599	1,463
Türkiye	49	2,138

Hot-rolled coil and plate (HS 7208)

Supplier	Tonnes	USD/tonne
Russia	288,346	640
China	3,916	843
Korea, Rep.	416	1,721
Kyrgyzstan	379	803
Germany	279	2,861

Angles, shapes and sections (HS 7216)

Supplier	Tonnes	USD/tonne
Russia	267,137	844
China	13,646	882
Uzbekistan	4,432	888
Türkiye	506	7,299
Kyrgyzstan	336	236

Buying into Kazakhstan?

Routing decides the price here more than the mill does. Tell us the destination city and whether the cargo can wait for rail, and the quote comes back with the routing written into it.

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How Kazakhstan import values moved, 2021–2024

Declared import unit value by heading and year, USD per tonne

Year	Hot-rolled coil and plate	Cold-rolled sheet	Wire rod	Hot-rolled bar	Angles, shapes and sections	Steel wire	Welded tube, circular	Welded hollow sections
2021	890	1,049	738	696	917	862	930	920
2022	—	—	704	681	—	—	—	—
2023	713	629	521	—	831	704	808	829
2024	650	804	561	555	861	684	316	700

Years run down, headings across, and only headings reported at least three times are shown. The columns are deliberately not averaged — combining a flat product with a welded tube would produce a number with no referent. Where one cell stands well clear of the others, that heading carried an unusual product mix that year.

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Questions about steel prices in Kazakhstan

What does steel cost in Kazakhstan?

Hot-rolled coil imports into Kazakhstan cleared at 650 USD per tonne in 2024. Kazakhstan is landlocked, so freight is a larger share of landed cost here than in any coastal market on this site.

How does steel reach Kazakhstan?

Overland by rail and road, typically transiting two or three countries. Route choice — through Russia, through the Caspian and the Caucasus, or through Iran — changes both transit time and cost materially, and the routes are not always equally available.

Does the Eurasian Economic Union affect steel imports?

Yes. Kazakhstan applies the EAEU common customs tariff and EAEU technical regulations, so goods cleared into any member state move freely within the union. Certification requirements follow EAEU rules rather than national ones.

What grade considerations matter in the Kazakh climate?

Low-temperature toughness. Winter design temperatures well below −30 °C make the impact class the critical specification — J2 or the NL grades rather than JR — because brittle fracture, not strength, is the failure mode that matters.