Foreign investment and forex regulation in Ethiopia
埃塞俄比亚的外国投资和外汇监管
By:Getu Shiferaw, Lead Lawyer, DLA Piper Africa, Ethiopia (Mehrteab Leul & Associates)
作者:Getu Shiferaw, DLA Piper Africa首席律师,埃塞俄比亚Mehrteab Leul & Associates
翻译:孔伟
Introduction引言
In Ethiopia, as in most other jurisdictions, one of the major issues for foreign investors is access to foreign exchange (forex). Because of the country’s negative trade balance, the availability of forex is highly restricted by laws and strictly regulated by the central bank, the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE).在埃塞俄比亚,同大多数其他司法管辖区一样,外国投资者面临的主要问题之一是取得外汇的机会。由于该国的贸易逆差,外汇的可得性受到法律的高度限制,并受到中央银行埃塞俄比亚国家银行(NBE)的严格监管。
It is this forex shortage, among other reasons, that forced the Ethiopian government to adopt an investment policy that favors foreign and domestic export and manufacturing investments, which can generate foreign currency or reduce the foreign currency that the country pays for its imports. This policy can easily be demonstrated by the government’s recent construction of a number of industrial parks that focus on manufacturing and exports and the call for investors to carry out inve ....
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