By the beginning of January of 2003 there were 5300 acting enterprises with participation of foreign capital in Kazakhstan

/Kazakhstan today, April 23, 03/ - By the beginning of January of 2003 there were 5300 acting enterprises in Kazakhstan with foreign capital participation (as of January 1 of 2002 - 3995), whose total authorized capital equaled to KZT197.6 bn. A correspondent of KZ-today was informed about it by Kazakhstan statistics agency. At that, according to statistics agency's data, 2004 enterprises have market share of foreign investors, and 3296 enterprises - entirely belong to foreign investors from 112 countries. As of January 1 of 2003 joint enterprise was conducted with all CIS countries. The biggest number of acting enterprises from CIS countries was founded with Russia's firms - 1042 enterprises, Kyrgyzstan - 99, Ukraine - 74 and Uzbekistan - 65. 2139 enterprises with participation of countries of Asian region out of 29 states were acting. Most active investors are: China - 744 enterprises, Turkey - 653, South Korea - 153 and Iran - 134. By the reporting date 1355 JE, which were founded jointly with 36 Europe's countries were acting in Kazakhstan, of them with 15 states - members of European Union. Besides, by the beginning of this year 353 Kazakhstan-American JE were acting on the country's territory. Collaboration with African continent in the sphere of joint enterprise has been presented by 15 countries (29 enterprises). As statistics agency informed, in 2002 acting JE made production (works, services) for KZT1257.1 bn. Main types of enterprises' activity was extraction of crude oil and natural gas (57% of total volume of production, which was made by these enterprises) and activity, which is concerned with metallurgical industry (22%, among which 13% fell to the stake of non- ferrous metals production, to the stake of production of cast iron, steel and ferroalloys- 9%). At domestic Kazakhstan market enterprises with participation of foreign capital in the year 2002 made produced goods (both of their own production and goods, which were bought from other enterprises abroad) for KZT898.5 bn. [2003-04-23]