State Joint-Stock Foreign Trade Company "Uzmarkazimpex" was established in 1998.

SJSFTC "Uzmarkazimpex" is an open joint-stock company, which independently carries out its business activity on self-financing basis. The allocation of the company's authorized fund is the following: 51% - the state, 30% - legal persons, 19% - natural persons.

The company's major activities are:

- Export of Uzbek cotton fibre;

- Export of cotton fibre processing products and other export-oriented products produced by enterprises of the republic;

- Export of soft grain and flour;

- Import of products for the purpose of satisfaction of domestic customers' needs;

- Investment activity with the purpose of promotion of the republic's export resources, as well as using of new instruments for cooperation on the basis of tolling, leasing and consignment contracts;

- Rendering of marketing and information services to enterprises of small-scale and private business, elaboration of effective schemes of export transactions' financing.

The company is one of the largest exporters of Uzbek cotton fibre. The turnover of the company is about 250 000 tons of cotton fibre annually. The company has settled relationships with all producers of cotton fibre on the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan and well-established partnership with the Buyers. The membership of SJSFTC "O'zmarkazimpeks" in the International Cotton Association also promotes strengthening of the company's authority in the world market.

In order to provide more effectively with specific kinds of services connected with accepting, storing and forwarding of cotton products to export, the company has established specialized cotton terminals in Kashkadarya, Samarkand, Navoi and Djizak regions with the total volume of one-time storage of 91.000 tons of cotton fibre.