Domestic investment share
Any Bhutanese citizen after attaining 18 years is eligible to engage in commercial or industrial activity after obtaining a business license. Licenses are classified into three categories; (1) trading, (2) service industries and (3) production and manufacturing industries. The Department of Trade will deal with trading activities only, while the Department of Industry and Department of Cottage and Small Industry will deal with the service, production and manufacturing activities.
Business Creation (service, production and manufacturing)
Classification of industries is done based on employment and investment size. However, where there is a conflict, investment will take precedence over employment (only in case of cottage and small industry).
|
Scale of industry |
Employment Size |
Investment (million BTN) |
|
Cottage |
1 to 4 |
<1 |
|
Small |
5 to 19 |
1 – 10 |
|
Medium |
NA |
10 - 100 |
|
Large |
NA |
> 100 |
Activities listed here do not require location clearance.
Activities listed under the green list (refer Annex 1) of A Guide to Environmental Clearance Application Procedure - 2022 do not require environmental clearance.
