Investment areas reserved for domestic investors in Ethiopia.
The following investment areas are exclusively reserved for domestic investors:
1/ Subject to applicable law, banking, insurance and microfinance businesses, excluding capital goods finance business;
2/ Transmission and distribution of electrical energy through integrated national grid system;
3/ Primary and middle level health services,
4/ Wholesale trade, petroleum petroleum products, wholesale of own products produced in Ethiopia; excluding wholesale of electronic commerce
5/ Retail trade, excluding retail of and electronic commerce as provided under appropriate law, of own products produced in Ethiopia;
6/ Import trade, excluding liquefied petroleum gas and bitumen;
7/ Export trade of raw coffee, khat, oil seeds, pulses, minerals, hides and skins, products of natural forest, chicken, and livestock including pack animals bought on the market;
8/ Construction and drilling services below Grade I;
9/ Hotel, lodge, resort, motel, guesthouse, and pension services, excluding those that are star-designated;
10/ Restaurant, tearoom, coffee shops, bars, nightclubs, and catering services, excluding star-designated national cuisine restaurant service;
11/ Travel agency, travel ticket sales and trade auxiliary services,
12/ Tour operation;
13/ Operating lease of equipments, machineries and vehicles, excluding industry-specific heavy equipments, machineries and specialized vehicles;
14/ Transport services, excluding the following areas:
a) Railway transport;
b) Cable-car transport,
c) Cold-chain transport;
d) Freight transport having a capacity of more than 25 tones; and
e) Transport services reserved for joint investment with the Government or domestic investors:
15/ Making indigenous traditional medicines;
16/ Producing bakery products and pastries for domestic market:
17/ Grinding mills:
18/ Barbershop and beauty salon services, smithery, and tailoring except by garment factories;
19/ Maintenance and repair services, including aircraft maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO), but excluding repair and maintenance of heavy industry machineries and medical equipment;
20/ Aircraft ground handling and other related services.
21/ Saw milling, timber manufacturing, and assembling of – semi-finished wood products,
22/ Media services,
23/Customs clearance service;
24/ Brick and block manufacturing; An
25/ Quarrying;
26/ Lottery and sports betting;
27/ Laundry services, excluding those provided on industrial alill scale;
28/ Translation and secretarial services,
29/ Security services, 29/ Security
30/ Brokerage services,
31/ Attorney and legal consultancy services, and
32/ Private employment agency services, excluding such services for the employment of seafarers and other similar professionals that require high expertise and international experience and network.