Bosnia - Limitations on Selling U S Products and ServicesBosnia - Sales Limitations
The state-level "Law on Foreign Direct Investment" provides a generic framework for foreign investment. The law accords foreign investors the same rights as domestic investors, including bidding on privatization tenders. The primary exceptions are the defense industry and the media sector, where foreign control or ownership is limited to 49 percent. However, either entity government may decide, if it deems justified, to waive the 49 percent foreign ownership limit for defense industry companies.
As a result of FDI Law amendments adopted in March 2015, foreign investors can now own more than 49 percent of capital business entities dealing with media activities, such as publishing newspapers, magazines and other journals, publishing of periodical publications, production and distribution of television programs, privately-owned broadcasting of radio and TV programs, and other forms of daily or periodic publications of edited produced program content through transfer of recordings, voice, sound or images. The new FDI Law maintains the restriction that foreign investors cannot own more than 49 percent of public television and radio services.