The Department of Foreign Economic Relations is an independent structural division of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The Department implements the external foreign activity of the Chamber, coordinates the operations of offices of CCI of RK abroad, assists in establishing and development of trade and economic relations and scientific and technical ties of enterprises and organizations of the Republic and, in the first place, members of the Chamber with foreign partners by providing the interested parties with necessary economic information and advice on external economic activity. The Department assists in the expansion of export of goods and services, protection of interests of the CCI of RK and its partners in the foreign economic sphere and improvement of support services in the sphere of foreign trade. The Chamber organizes trade-economic missions for the Kazakhstani entrepreneurs abroad and for the foreign entrepreneurs in Kazakhstan. The Chamber participates in the preparation and holding of international forums, conferences and symposiums in the Republic and abroad.