In the days surrounding the November 2025 C5+1 Presidential Summit, Uzbekistan moved beyond the signing of individual commercial contracts and laid the institutional foundations for what President Shavkat Mirziyoyev described as a new era of systematic economic cooperation with the United States. At the center of that architecture is the Uzbekistan-US Business and Investment Council, established by presidential decree immediately following Mirziyoyev’s bilateral meeting with Donald Trump in the Oval Office on November 6, 2025. The council is designed to serve as a permanent coordination mechanism between Uzbek state institutions and American corporate and government partners, replacing ad hoc deal making with an institutionalized pipeline for investment and trade.
The headline commercial commitment was announced by President Trump on his Truth Social platform: Uzbekistan will purchase and invest nearly 35 billion dollars in the United States within three years, with a total commitment of approximately 100 billion dollars over the next decade. The priority sectors identified for that investment include critical minerals, aviation, automotive parts, artificial intelligence, and petrochemicals. In the first three years alone, Uzbekistan committed to importing 5 billion dollars in American automotive parts, a direct effort to rebuild supply chain ties with the US auto industry via UzAuto Motors, which continues to produce Chevrolet-branded vehicles.
New diplomatic infrastructure to match commercial ambitions
The investment council is being backed with concrete diplomatic infrastructure. A new Adviser-Envoy position has been created at the Uzbek Embassy in Washington specifically to coordinate investment initiatives linked to the council, with the appointment effective in 2026. Plans are underway to open additional Uzbek consulates in Philadelphia, Chicago, Orlando, and Seattle, chosen to reflect both the geography of the Uzbek diaspora in the United States and the locations of major American industry clusters. These moves position Uzbekistan as the most diplomatically active Central Asian republic in the United States at the present moment.
A Silicon Valley dimension adds technological depth to the commercial framework. Uzbekistan is establishing a National Transfer Office in Silicon Valley designed to channel US technology know-how into Uzbekistani universities, research institutions, and industrial enterprises. The office will operate in parallel with the AI-related agreements signed at the summit, including Uzbekistan’s NVIDIA supercomputer partnership and its cooperation framework with US-based technology companies on robotics, digital twins, and AI governance. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau has publicly described the bilateral relationship as entering a qualitatively new phase.
Structural shift in Central Asia’s economic orientation
The scale and structure of Uzbekistan’s commitments reflect a deliberate strategic calculation. President Mirziyoyev proposed ten key initiatives at the summit, including a permanent C5+1 secretariat, a coordination council on investment and trade, and a Central Asian Investment Partnership Fund. These proposals signal that Uzbekistan does not view its relationship with Washington as a one-off transactional moment tied to a single political cycle, but as a structural reorientation of its economic ties. The February 2026 return visit to Washington, which produced the US DFC joint investment holding framework for critical minerals, confirmed that trajectory. Analysts at Carnegie and the New Lines Institute have noted that Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan are now operating on a different diplomatic tier from the other three C5 republics, asserting themselves as middle powers capable of driving economic frameworks rather than simply receiving investment.
