Priority area Sustainable economic development Removing barriers, creating jobs
Textile workshop in Uzbekistan
All activities are aimed at creating long-term jobs and better income opportunities in Uzbekistan.
At the same time, trade barriers are to be dismantled so that Uzbek products can be supplied more easily and quickly to the world market. Germany is providing support to Uzbekistan and three other landlocked states in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) in their efforts to implement the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement, which entered into force in February 2017. The focus is on such issues as customs and border procedures, which have often been inefficient in the past. This has meant delays of days or weeks in the shipping of goods, adding to the cost of doing business.