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The article explores the restructuring of external relations of the Central Asian republics (CARs) following the disintegration of the Soviet Union. It is said that CARs are slowly integrating into the world division of labor and replacing their integration with Soviet economy. Moreover, while Tajikistan's economy may be less susceptible to the 37% drop in aluminum prices due to the smaller share of earnings in export, the country's government should be concerned with the predominance of aluminum in overall exports. It was also observed that there are very few signs that CARs are integrating into production networks controlled by transnational corporations (TNC), and that there is also less evidence that firms from CARs are establishing their own networks.