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3. Investing: Colombia

Investing in Colombia: what the international investment regime counts as direct or portfolio investment, how investments are registered with Banco de la República and what voids that registration, the special regimes for finance and for hydrocarbons and mining, the statutory caps in television and private security, and the free trade zone and ZOMAC tax incentives, each tied to the official text.

Investor view. Colombia lets foreign capital into almost every sector without screening and ties exchange guarantees to a simple automatic registration, while export based free trade zone rates reward investors who build for global markets.

Foreign investment in Colombia: what counts as foreign investment, how it is registered, special regimes, sector caps and incentivesColombia has no general screening of foreign investment: the international investment regime in Decreto 1068 de 2015 sorts every inbound asset into direct or portfolio investment, registration with Ba