Does an Uzbek company need a licence to export or import?

Enterprises with foreign investments conduct export and import operations independently, subject to the requirements of the law. Export of the enterprise’s own production is not subject to licensing or quotas, and it may import products for its own production needs without a licence — with the Cabinet of Ministers setting the rules for determining what counts as own production supplied for export and what counts as import for the enterprise’s own needs. Property imported for the personal needs of foreign investors, and of foreign citizens and stateless persons working under contracts with them, is not subject to customs duty. (Investment Law, Art. 54 — lex.uz ↗)

These are rights attached to the status rather than to foreign ownership, so they turn on the same three-part test as everything else in that chapter — fifteen per cent foreign participation, a charter fund of at least 400 million UZS, and more than sixty per cent of revenue from own production or from servicing its output. A foreign-owned trading company is outside them and trades under the ordinary rules. (Decree UP-5495, Para. 6¹ — lex.uz ↗)