Membership of Kazakhstan in the WTO and the EEU - an important factor in increase of efficiency use of its strategic potential and competitiveness
Actual problems of liberalization of a foreign trade policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in conditions of integration of communication expansion, globalization and global crisis are considered. The global crisis showed that the international interdependence reached the level at which the value of mutual coherence of economic policy of various states both in external and internal spheres is significantly increasing. In this regard special attention is paid to questions of unification and implementation of the World Trade Organiztion standards at forming the common economic space, common customs tariffs, common product range of foreign economic activity and unification of trade regimes of the Eurasian Economic Union member states. On the basis of positive and negative assessment sides of Kazakhstan membership in the World Trade Organization conditions for primary development of the lagging behind spheres and measures for creation of effective economic levels of import substitution of consumer goods on the basis of further improvement of customs policy and priority of innovation development within the Eurasian Economic Union are proved.Measures for activation of protectionism in the trade policy of Kazakhstan by further diversification of customs rates, creation of measures for more effective support of domestic producers at export operations, establishments of the unified norms and rules in the foreign trade operations with other countries which are not a part of the Eurasian Economic Union are recommended. It is shown that membership of Kazakhstan in the World Trade Organization and the Eurasian Economic Union means opening of the leading sectors of the economy for competition with countries of the foreign companies.