Tajikistan
Water and hydropower, a market in an early phase of opening
Tajikistan is Central Asia's smallest economy and sits outside the EAEU customs union. Hydropower, aluminium and cotton dominate; imports depend on transit through Uzbekistan or Kyrgyzstan. Administration is slower than in neighbouring states and Russian is indispensable in business. For a European supplier this is a market entered through a specific project or international financing rather than through broad distribution.
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Setting up a company
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- ·Legal forms
- ·Foreign ownership
- ·How long registration takes
- ·Documents to incorporate
- ·What to watch for
Taxes
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- ·Corporate income tax
- ·VAT
- ·Double taxation treaty
What it makes and needs
Aluminium, electricity, cotton, precious metals and fruit.
Oil products, machinery, food, building materials and medicines.
Hydropower and grid technology, agricultural machinery, food processing, healthcare.
Money and payments
The rate is managed, currency operations are reported, and conversion is in practice slower than in neighbouring countries.
Importing into their market
Outside the EAEU customs union; a national tariff, WTO member since 2013.
Its own mandatory certification (Tajikstandard); an EAEU document is not automatically valid.
Bringing their goods into the EU
Tajikistan is a standard EU GSP beneficiary — reduced or zero duty on part of the tariff lines.
Practical matters
Tajik is the state language; Russian is the language of interethnic communication and indispensable in business.
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