Kazakhstan acknowledges diversity of approaches to evaluation of export fees for petroleum within the framework of the Customs Union with Russia, Kazakh Minister for Petroleum and Gas Sauat Mynbayev saidm News Kazakhstan reports.
Russia reduced oil imports from the Pavlodar petrochemical plant, because Kazakhstan has not approved a method of calculating fees for petroleum exports. 270,000 tons will be imported from the plant in May, compared with 500,000 tons in the previous months.