A business that imports does it for one of two reasons. It can buy goods abroad to resell them as they are, which Algerian rules call revente en l’état. Or it can import what it uses itself: raw materials, inputs and equipment. The bank, customs and the tax office treat the two differently at almost every step, and a business does one or the other. You say which one once, and every import dossier and programme that you open afterwards takes it.
Most businesses say it when they create their organization, by answering Do you import goods? (Setting up your business). This page is for a business that never said it. That is a business that turned Foreign Trade on later, or one that was created before Beelocity asked the question.
Only the Foreign trade officer and the owner of your organization can give the answer.
Say what your business imports for
- Open Foreign Trade in the sidebar. At the bottom of its panel, open Setup. It opens on the Dossier rules tab.
- Press Edit.
- Under Purpose of import, choose Resale if you resell the goods as they are. Choose Own needs if you import for your own production or use.
- Press Save. Beelocity names your answer and says that nobody can change it. Press Save again to keep it.
Until you save it, the Foreign Trade page shows a Purpose of import not set block. New on the import dossiers or on the import programmes then brings you here, and no form opens. Press Open Setup in that block to come here.
The answer is final
After you save it, Dossier rules shows your answer with no Edit, and says that it is final. The law runs the two kinds of import on separate registers and separate platforms. So a business that changes kind is, in practice, another business. If yours also imports for the other purpose, it does so as another organization in Beelocity, with its own dossiers and programmes.
Your dossiers and programmes do not show the purpose, because it is the same on every one of them. Each one still keeps it. The rules that depend on it read it there, such as the domiciliation tax on a resale import.
If your business already had dossiers before this page existed, Beelocity filled in the setting for you when all of them said the same thing. If some said resale and others said own needs, Beelocity left the setting empty for you to choose once. The old dossiers keep what they said.