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Invest in Mauritania

A short guide for companies expanding into Mauritania: the economy at a glance, the rules and steps to set up, and who can help, each with its source.

1. Mauritania at a glance

The currency is the ouguiya (MRU).

Source: Investment Code, Law 2025-006, and Decree 2025-117⁠ (opens in a new tab) · as of February 19, 2025

2. Before you set up

The investment agency, any one-stop route, the sectors reserved for nationals and the zones, as the guide found them.

3. Steps to set up

The main steps, in order, each with the body responsible and its official page.

Setting up in Mauritania

  1. Register the company at the APIM one-stop shop, which also registers it for tax and social security.Agence de Promotion des Investissements en Mauritanie48 working hours once the file is completeOfficial page⁠ (opens in a new tab)

    Source: APIM, business setup and one-stop shop page⁠ (opens in a new tab) · as of October 31, 2026

  2. Check your tax identification number (NIF) on the tax directorate website after registration.Direction Générale des ImpôtsOfficial page⁠ (opens in a new tab)

    Source: Tax directorate, home page (in French)⁠ (opens in a new tab) · as of October 31, 2026

  3. Apply at APIM for an Investment Certificate under the basic, development pole or structuring regime.Agence de Promotion des Investissements en Mauritanie10, 20 or 45 working days, by regimeOfficial page⁠ (opens in a new tab)

    Source: APIM, incentives and guarantees page⁠ (opens in a new tab) · as of October 31, 2026

  4. Request an authorization and work permit for expatriate managers, allowed where no equivalent national skills exist, up to 10 percent of managerial posts.Competent administration named in the Investment CodeOfficial page⁠ (opens in a new tab)

    Source: Official Journal 1577, Investment Code, 2025 (in French)⁠ (opens in a new tab) · as of March 15, 2025

4. Organizations that help investors

Start with APIM and DGD. Each card links to the organization’s own site.

Each card says what it can help with:Get adviceFind financeMeet requirementsResearch markets

Investment and business setup

Customs and tax

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Chambers and industry associations

5. Worth knowing

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Promote:Mauritania is an independent guide by Promote:Global, not an official government portal. The organizations named here are independent public and membership bodies, not Promote:Global partners, and every link goes to their own site.

Facts read from public sources, with an editorial cut-off of October 31, 2026. Nothing here is investment, legal, tax or sanctions advice. Check current status with the organization before you rely on it.