Kazakhstan increased oil products imports from Russia

Kazakhstan increased oil products imports from Russia, being afraid of the governmental limitation for Russian fuel imports. Despite overstocking at the internal market, in January – March imports increased from 386,000 tons to 458,000 tons. The most rapid growth is observed in supplies of Russian petrol. In January 2013, Kazakhstan was going to decline Russian oil product imports due to broadening of tolling operations with China. In March 2013, they reported that Kazakhstan was going to limit imports of some sort of oil products from Russia.