A business that imports does it for one of two reasons. Either it buys goods abroad to resell them as they are, which Algerian rules call revente en l’état, or it imports what it uses itself: raw materials, inputs, 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 once, and every import dossier 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 where a business that never said it says it: one that switched Foreign Trade on later, or that was created before the question was asked.
Say what your business imports for
- Open Foreign Trade in the sidebar. At the bottom of its panel, open Setup. It opens on Dossier rules.
- Press Edit.
- Under Purpose of import, choose Resale if you resell the goods as they are, or Own needs if you import for your own production or use.
- Press Save. Beelocity names your answer and reminds you that it cannot be changed. Press Save again to keep it.
Until this is saved, the Foreign Trade page opens on a Purpose of import not set block, and New on the import dossiers or the import programmes brings you here instead of opening a form. Press Open Setup in that block to come here.
The answer is final
Once saved, 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: it is the same on every one of them. Each still keeps it, and the rules that depend on it, such as the domiciliation tax on a resale import, read it there.
If your business already had dossiers before this page existed, Beelocity filled the setting in for you when all of them said the same thing. If some said resale and others said own needs, the setting is left empty for you to choose once, and the old dossiers keep what they said.