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Uzbekistan: Local cement companies produced 4.76Mt of cement between January and April 2025, up by 5.5% year-on-year from 4.51Mt in 2024, according to the National Statistical Committee. Output was from 3.27Mt in 2023.

Uzbekistan: Cement companies produced 3.65Mt of cement in January - March 2025, up by 62% year-on-year from 2.26Mt in 2024. According to data from the National Statistical Committee, output had previously risen by 31% from 2.03Mt in the first quarter of 2023 to 2.26Mt in 2024.

Uzbekistan: The country's cement companies produced 0.85Mt of cement in January 2025, according to the national Statistics Agency. Cement production increased by 35% year-on-year. In 2023, Uzbekistan produced 0.26Mt and in 2024 it produced 0.63Mt.

Uzbekistan: Cement companies in Uzbekistan produced 16Mt of cement in 2024, according to data from the national Statistics Agency. This represents a 34% year-on-year increase from 2023, when companies produced 11.9Mt.

Tajikistan: The Ministry of Industry and New Technologies has blamed falling cement production in Tajikistan on growth in production in neighbouring Uzbekistan. It also noted rising output in Afghanistan, according to Asia-Plus. Local production fell by 2% year-on-year to 4.35Mt in 2024 from 4.46Mt in 2023. Ministry data shows that exports of cement from Tajikistan dropped by 30% to 0.29Mt from 0.66Mt. In November 2024 Uzbekistan sharply increased customs clearance fees on Tajik cement to US$300/t from US$35/t.

Uzbekistan: Cement sales on the Uzbekistan Commodity Exchange (UZEX) grew by 58% year-on-year to 5.9Mt in 2024, with average monthly sales exceeding 0.49Mt, according to Business World Magazine.

Ahangarantsement held 18% of total cement sales volume, followed by Kyzylkumsement (3%) and Bekabadcement (1%). Tashkent and the Tashkent region observed the highest demand for cement at 34% of purchases, followed by Samarkand (15%) and Kashkadarya (14%). Ferghana held 8%, with other regions purchasing smaller volumes.

Uzbekistan: Cement production reached 14.74Mt between January and November 2024, up 32% year-on-year from 11.17Mt during the same period in 2023, according to the Statistics Agency.

Kyrgyzstan: The Ministry of Economy and Commerce in Kyrgyzstan has initiated an anti-dumping investigation into cement imports from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The investigation covers imports over the past three years amid a ‘sharp’ rise in import volumes, according to Kun.Uz news. Cement imports increased by 130% from January – September 2024, reaching 401,000t, with Kazakhstan exporting 269,700t of cement worth US$14.3m and Uzbekistan exporting 124,000t valued at US$9.2m. Uzbekistan’s cement exports increased from 1000t in 2023 to 123,000t during January – September 2024. The investigation aims to determine breaches of fair competition rules and protect Kyrgyz producers and the domestic market.

Türkiye: Cement exports from Türkiye to Uzbekistan decreased by 21% year-on-year in the period from January to October 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, and amounted to US$11.4m, according to Trend. Türkiye's global cement exports from January to October 2024 decreased by 7% and amounted to US$3.6bn.

In October 2024, Türkiye exported cement products worth US$765,000 to Uzbekistan, marking a year-on-year decline of 69%. Overall, it exported US$365m worth of cement, up by 1% year-on-year. To note, Türkiye exported cement worth US$4.3bn from October 2023 to October 2024.

Uzbekistan: Customs authorities have raised the clearance fee for cement imported from Tajikistan by seven-fold. In early November 2024 the fee was increased by US$300/t from US$35/t previously, according to the Asia Plus news agency. A source quoted by the news agency speculated that the move follows a strategy meeting by local cement manufacturers in October 2024. Tajikistan has previously been the main supplier of cement to Uzbekistan. However, as the country has built new cement plants, often supported by investors in China, domestic production capacity is growing. The Uzbek government previously banned cement imports for a short period in mid-2020.