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The Strategy is a five-pillar cross-sectoral export-promotion framework adopted by presidential Cabinet decision on 31 July 2025, proposed by Minister of Economy Gevorg Papoyan. Its five strategic pillars are: (1) competitive environment and regulatory facilitation, (2) infrastructure and logistics accessibility, (3) exporter development and capacity building, (4) export market expansion, and (5) export stimulation and financing.
The AMD 98 billion (~USD 250 million at AMD 390/USD reference) implementation envelope draws from a blended funding matrix: Armenian state budget, EU Reform-and-Growth-Facility-style instruments, EBRD Armenia Country Strategy 2025-2030 co-financing, USAID technical cooperation, and GIZ bilateral assistance.
Key institutional architecture: the Ministry of Economy leads as coordinating ministry; Enterprise Armenia and the Investment Support Centre serve as operational vehicles; an Inter-Ministerial Council on Export Promotion provides cross-government coordination. EXIMBANK of Armenia and the Armenian Export Insurance Agency provide export-finance and credit-guarantee instruments.
The critical-minerals axis of the Strategy targets ZCMC's copper-molybdenum exports (Kapan concentrates), Amulsar gold restart under Lydian Armenia's August 2023 USD 250 million financing MOU (with 12.5% state equity), and emerging antimony and rare-earth-element extraction from the Sotk and Kapan zones — consistent with Armenia's growing designation as an alternative EU/US supply-chain source under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act and US-Armenia Strategic Partnership Charter (November 2024).
The Strategy explicitly reweights Armenia's export geography away from Russia/EAEU concentration (approximately 28% of Armenian exports in 2024) toward EU, US, Gulf, and Asian markets. This aligns with:
accreditation and EU Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) recognition while formally remaining inside the EAEU Customs Union
export-control filings should reference this strategy as the parent industrial-policy framework
creates an EU supply-chain diversification pathway distinct from Chinese-controlled production
positions Armenia alongside Georgia and Estonia in the EU Eastern Partnership tech-services-export corridor — benefiting from diaspora-linked FDI flows (US, France, Russia) and low corporate-tax base
EU-aligned non-member sourcing alternatives — Armenia's CAB/AEO accession roadmap is timed to capture this inflow
budget supplement or remains a forward commitment
and environmental permit status as of mid-2025 are unconfirmed