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1. Start here: Peru

Start here if you are new to Peru. This section maps the legal gateways a foreign investor crosses before money moves: constitutional equal treatment and free use of foreign currency, the DL 662 foreign investment regime and its legal stability agreements, company or branch formation under the General Companies Law, registration in SUNAT's RUC, and the headline tax, wage and index figures, each tied to the official text.

Investor view. Peru pairs constitutional equal treatment, free convertibility and remittance rights with contractual legal stability for large investors, an open and rules based framework that has long rewarded patient capital.

Start here: the legal gateways every foreign investor crosses in PeruPeru's Constitution puts foreign and domestic investment on the same footing and guarantees the free holding and disposal of foreign currency; DL 662 adds automatic authorization of foreign investment