Overview
- EAEU and Pakistan agreed to set up a joint feasibility study group to test the case for a preferential trade regime.
- The two sides will open structured talks with the Eurasian Economic Commission to explore a trade pact, with any move dependent on the study’s results and legal procedures.
- EAEU trade chief Andrey Slepnev called Pakistan a prospective partner and said current trade shows strong room to grow.
- Pakistan’s commerce minister Jam Kamal Khan cast the outreach as a strategic partnership spanning logistics, energy, digital trade, industry, and supply chains.
- The EAEU is a Moscow‑based union of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Armenia with an economy of about $3 trillion.