It is a status with a capital floor of 400 million UZS — and it is not the only way a foreigner owns an Uzbek company.
The registration regulation makes a short table of minimum charter funds binding as a ground of refusal, and an ordinary limited liability company is not in that table. What the table covers is the status of an enterprise with foreign investment, for which it sets 400 million UZS outside Karakalpakstan and Khorezm and 200 million within them, and the general partnership, at fifty base calculation values. Where the business will carry on a licensed activity, the minimum is instead the one that activity’s own legislation prescribes. (Registration Regulation, Para. 40 — lex.uz ↗)
The status is distinct from foreign ownership as such. The application form treats "an enterprise with foreign capital participation" as its own category, taking one of the ordinary legal forms; and the act adds a refusal ground where the share of foreign investment stated in the founding documents does not match the share the law establishes for enterprises with foreign investment. The conditions of the status itself live in the investment legislation rather than here, so a founder deciding between the two is deciding a question this act frames but does not answer. (Registration Regulation, Paras. 9, 41 — lex.uz ↗)
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