What does "enterprise with foreign investments" status actually get you?

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Bank accounts abroad, licence-free export of your own output, duty-free personal imports, and long land leases. Accounts Accounts in any currency, in any bank in Uzbekistan — and outside it — with the right to take and repay foreign-currency loans. Export Export of its own production is not licensed or quota-limited — and import for its own production needs needs no licence. Customs Property imported for the personal needs of foreign investors and their foreign staff is free of customs duty. 25 years Land is leased by the Cabinet of Ministers for up to twenty-five years — and for not less than the term the application asks for. Structure It may create subsidiaries, branches with legal personality and representative offices. But Its foreign-currency spending must be covered by its own foreign-currency receipts — currency self-sufficiency, the one obligation that comes with the rest. The status is worth having where a business earns in foreign currency and moves goods. An enterprise with foreign investments may open and operate accounts in any currency in any bank inside Uzbekistan and abroad, borrow and repay in foreign currency, export its own production without a licence or quota, import for its own production needs without one, and take a land lease from the Cabinet of Ministers for up to twenty-five years. It also carries an obligation that does not apply to an ordinary company: its expenditure in foreign currency must be covered by its own foreign-currency receipts or other lawful sources. And on liquidation or a foreign investor’s exit, that investor takes its share of the property in money or in kind at market value — a right stated in the law rather than left to the charter.

What does "enterprise with foreign investments" status actually get you?

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