THE FAVORABLE TREATMENT OF FOREIGN INVESTORS

Republic of Srpska and BiH brought a series of legislative solutions to protect foreign investors and their investments, just to highlight some:

Favorable laws that regulate direct foreign investments area, including national treatment of foreign investors;

A foreign investor as natural person has the same rights and obligations as domestic natural person;

Transfer of profit abroad is done freely. A foreign investor shall be entitled to such transfers freely and without delay;

System for protection against the risk for foreign investors is provided;

A foreign investor has the right to invest and reinvest the profits in any economic sector and non-economic activities in the Republic of Srpska, in the same form and under the same conditions defined for domestic investors (residents of Bosnia and Herzegovina) by the applicable laws of the Republic of Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina;

Foreign investments will be exempt from paying customs duties, excluding customs registration, unless regulated otherwise by the Law on Customs Policy of Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Foreign capital in equipment is exempted from paying import and customs duties (with the exception of passenger cars, slot and gambling machines).