PCCI, Kazakh chamber set to sign trade pact

The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), the country’s largest business organization, has welcomed the offer of the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan for a cooperation agreement aimed at exploring and identifying opportunities for trade and investments between their two countries.

Kazakhstan is the largest of the former Soviet republics, excluding Russia. According to the Department of Trade and Industry, Kazakhstan possesses enormous fossil fuel reserves and plentiful supplies of other minerals and metals such as uranium, copper, and zinc.  It has a population of about 18 million in a land area of some 2.7 million square kilometers.