Guyana Open for Investment - 2019-2020 Guide for Investors.

This Guide for Investors offers opportunities for foreign and domestic investors to make investment in the mining, timber, sugar, rice and seafood, as well as emerging sectors such as non-traditional agriculture, agro-processing, aquaculture, value-added wood products, and tourism. To this end, the Guide lays down procedures and principles for starting a business in Guyana, investment, export, and sections relating to packaging facilities for fruits and vegetables, general incentives, and sector specific incentives, such as fisheries including exemption from import duties on trawlers, fishing vessels, spare parts for fishing boats and trawlers, a wide range of fishing equipment, and exemption from custom duties and VAT on fish/seafood processing equipment, packaging material and other inputs for processing.