The largest Korean investor in the region is Daewoo Corporation, which invested $ 1.4 billion. to the production of cars in Uzbekistan to sell them throughout Central Asia. The work of the Daewoo plant depends on the components manufactured in neighboring states, so in most countries the regions these cars have a preferential tariff status of products produced by a joint venture. After a relatively successful start, this program was faced with difficulties that were partly related to the weakening of their own positions Daewoo after the Asian crisis of 1998., and partly — with tightening the conditions of trade after the start of the implementation of the economic program adopted by Uzbekistan in 2000.
