Company formation in Algeria for Chinese investors
You are a Chinese investor or company, often reaching us through a Hong Kong holding structure, ready to anchor your Algerian operation. Algeria is one of the most active African nodes of the Belt and Road, with Chinese groups already delivering ports, highways, housing and industrial plants here. UpGrowth packages and shepherds your entire incorporation through the official channels, and because the whole chain runs through an Algerian-resident gerant, the principals in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen or Hong Kong never need to board a plane to set the company up.
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USD 8,500
Subsidiary formation
Your gérant opens the provisional bank account himself.
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- 100% foreign ownership, no local partner
- You never set foot in Algeria
- Firm USD quote as soon as we hold every answer
- Price locked by contract, no hidden fees
致中国投资者:在阿尔及利亚设立公司
- 全程无需前往阿尔及利亚。由常驻阿尔及利亚的法定经理(gérant)办理公证授权并开立临时银行账户,您从中国内地或香港的银行汇入注册资本,经理再向 UpGrowth 出具授权委托书,公司章程签署、法律公告、CNRC、税号和社保登记由我们办理。
- 经理有三种选择:您自己担任经理(需要居留卡和外国商人卡,均由 UpGrowth 办理);指定一位在阿尔及利亚居住的经理人选;或由我们物色常驻经理,仅管理服务费为每月 900 美元,该经理的工资及 CNAS 社保缴费由公司另行承担。您作为股东保持完全控制。
- 中国与阿尔及利亚的双重征税协定自 2008 年起生效,中国内地税务居民的股息等跨境税务处理适用该协定,具体按您的档案确认。香港是单独的税务辖区,如果通过香港实体投资,我们会在您作出决定之前,先核对适用的协定和预提税路径。
- 自 2026 年 7 月 9 日起,阿尔及利亚适用《海牙认证公约》(Apostille)。如果文件出具地属于缔约方,一份 apostille 可取代领事认证链条,否则仍需领事认证。中国内地与香港的文件路径可能不同,我们会为每一套文件确认具体路径。无论哪种情况,都需要在阿尔及利亚进行法语宣誓翻译。
- 在服务、科技、生产、建筑和咨询领域,公司可由中方 100% 持股。只有战略行业(第 21-145 号行政法令规定)和纯进口转售需要阿尔及利亚籍多数股东。
美元起步价
- 设立公司(EURL 或 SARL):经理亲自到场开立临时银行账户
- USD 8,500 起
- 设立公司(EURL 或 SARL):由 UpGrowth 签署租约并开立临时银行账户
- USD 11,000 起
- 阿尔及尔注册办公地址
- USD 2,400 起 / 年
- 外国商人卡和居留卡
- USD 3,000 / 人
- 次级登记或分支机构（进口、出口、批发）
- USD 4,500 / 个
- 出口设立：出口代码、CACI 卡、银行注册地
- USD 2,800
- 外籍员工：签证、工作许可和居留卡,外籍员工 1 至 10 人
- USD 3,000 / 人
- 外籍员工：签证、工作许可和居留卡,外籍员工 11 至 50 人
- USD 2,200 / 人
- 外籍员工：签证、工作许可和居留卡,外籍员工 51 人及以上
- USD 1,600 / 人
- 工作许可和居留卡续期
- USD 900 / 人 / 年
- 常驻经理
- USD 900 / 月
- 会计
- USD 900 起 / 月
- 进口公司的会计
- USD 1,200 起 / 月
官方规费、公证费、公告费和注册资本按实际成本支付,不在上述价格之内。美元服务费不加增值税。工作许可按每人一个费率计价,费率由外籍员工总人数决定。
请告诉我们您的行业,以及您是直接从中国投资,还是通过香港投资。我们收齐全部答复后,即刻向您发送含明细的美元报价。
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Why Algeria for Chinese investors
The principal never travels
Chinese decision-makers rarely have the calendar room for weeks of in-person notary and bank visits. They do not have to. A resident gerant obtains the notaire authorization, opens the provisional account, you wire capital from your China or Hong Kong bank, and a procuration lets UpGrowth finish the statutes, BOAL, CNRC, NIF, NIS and CASNOS. Our resident manager service (USD 900 a month, covers the management service only; the manager's salary and his CNAS social contributions are paid by the company on top) is available if you have no local appointee.
China DTA in force since 2008
The China-Algeria double taxation agreement has applied since 2008. It is one of the treaties Algeria has confirmed in force, so cross-border tax treatment of dividends and branch profits for mainland tax residents is governed by a settled framework rather than guesswork, confirmed against your file.
100% Chinese-owned outside two carve-outs
Your Algerian company can be wholly Chinese-owned in services, technology, production, construction and consulting. A majority Algerian partner is required only in strategic sectors under Executive Decree 21-145 (energy and mining, pharmaceutical manufacturing, transport and transport infrastructure, defense) and in pure import-for-resale. We draft the objet social so manufacturing and EPC work qualify as production, not resale.
Dividend repatriation guaranteed
Law 22-18 Article 8 guarantees transfer of 100% of net dividends, capital gains and liquidation proceeds, after IBS and the 15% withholding, when capital entered through the banking channel in convertible currency, foreign financing covers at least 25% of investment cost, and the activity is not pure import-resale. Your repatriation route home is defined from day one.
Sectors Chinese investors pursue
- Infrastructure and EPC contracting (roads, ports, rail, water)
- Construction, building materials and cement
- Manufacturing and industrial assembly
- Machinery, equipment and automotive supply
- Solar and renewable energy projects
- Trade logistics and import combined with local transformation
The China and Hong Kong connection
China is among Algeria's largest trading partners and its single most active source of construction and infrastructure contractors. Chinese firms have delivered landmark projects across the country, from the East-West Highway to the Grand Mosque of Algiers and the new port and housing programs, building deep on-the-ground familiarity with Algerian procurement and execution. Hong Kong frequently serves as the holding and financing layer for these mainland investments, which is why so many files reach us routed through a Hong Kong entity.
Tax treaty and repatriation
Algeria and China have a double taxation agreement in force since 2008, so the tax treatment of dividends, branch profits and service fees flowing back to a mainland Chinese tax resident is governed by a confirmed treaty framework. The 15% dividend withholding may be reduced where the treaty applies, confirmed per file. Hong Kong is a separate tax jurisdiction, so where you invest through a Hong Kong entity we map your holding structure to the correct treaty and withholding path before you commit.
Document legalization
From 9 July 2026 Algeria applies the Hague Apostille Convention. If your documents originate in a member jurisdiction, a single apostille replaces the consular legalization chain; if not, the consular chain (notarization, foreign-ministry authentication, Algerian-embassy legalization) applies. Documents issued in mainland China and in Hong Kong can follow different paths, so we confirm the exact route for each set of your corporate documents. Sworn French translation in Algeria is required either way.
Source: Algeria acceded to the Hague Convention of 5 October 1961 by presidential decree 25-217 of 4 August 2025, published with the text of the convention in Journal officiel no. 55, and it entered into force in Algeria on 9 July 2026. Under article 12 of the convention an accession takes effect only with the contracting states that raised no objection within six months, so consular legalization still applies to a country that objected. We confirm the exact route for your own documents before anything is filed.
You never travel: the resident-gerant workflow
Algerian banks and notaries require in-person identification, but from the gerant (the resident legal manager), not from you as shareholder. The whole incorporation runs through an Algerian-resident gerant:
- 1
The gerant obtains the notary authorization to open a provisional bank account.
- 2
You wire the share capital in USD or EUR to that account through the official banking channel; the bank issues the capital subscription certificate.
- 3
The gerant signs a power of attorney to UpGrowth, and we handle the statutes signing, legal publications, CNRC, tax IDs and social affiliations.
If you have your own Algerian appointee, perfect. If not, our resident manager service (USD 900 a month, covers the management service only; the manager's salary and his CNAS social contributions are paid by the company on top) provides the manager that unlocks the entire workflow while you keep full control as shareholder.
Build your setup quote
Pick your structure and add-ons. The total updates as you choose.
One-off total
USD 8,500
- Setup
- USD 8,500
Payment: 50% at your yes, 50% at the commercial registry step.
USD fees carry no TVA: the prices shown are the prices you pay us. Official and notary fees are paid at cost, in the company's name.
After the formation: running your Algerian company
The formation is one payment. Running the company is a monthly and yearly service. First question: who manages it.
Who manages the company: three options
- 1You manage it yourself (residence card and foreign trader's card needed).
- 2You appoint your own manager, who lives in Algeria.
- 3UpGrowth sources a resident manager for you (the management service only: his salary and his CNAS contributions are paid by the company on top).
- Following your AAPI commitments, per yearFrom USD 2,000
- Dividend transfer, eachFrom USD 1,500
- Project follow-up, per monthFrom USD 3,500
- Finding a real office (rent at cost)From USD 1,500
These are starting prices. The quote comes at once as soon as we hold every answer.
Request a quote for the runningYour price right away
- Visa, work permit and residence card
- USD 3,0001 x USD 3,000 per person
- Annual renewal of the permit and the card
- USD 9001 x USD 900 a year
Starting prices. Administration fees and charges are paid at cost. We issue no title and we promise none: the decision belongs to the administration.
Instant price once we hold every answer: the button opens the form.
Follow Algerian rules with our data API and MCP server
Professional plan: 1 named user, all countries, the calculators, the Journal officiel index, AI assistants and the API, alerts for 2 countries.
$3,900per year
14-day trial for companies: it starts by itself with the trial form and your business e-mail address.
See the plan and the trialAlgerian public tenders and consortiums
UpGrowth carries the Algerian side of a public tender for a foreign contractor.
- We prepare the tender file.
- We prepare the grouping (GME) agreement with an Algerian partner.
- We structure the consortium.
- We find and introduce the Algerian partner.
- We follow the project.
- We take a success fee only when the contract is awarded.
Algerian public tenders ask a foreign candidate for its D-U-N-S number in the candidate declaration (arrêté of 19 December 2015). D-U-N-S number in Algeria
Starting prices
- Tender fileAlgerian bidder: 150 000 DZD HTUSD 2 400
- Review before filing60 000 DZD HT
- Bank guarantee set-upper guarantee45 000 DZD HT
- Grouping (GME) agreement120 000 DZD HT
- Consortium structuringinvestment partnership commitment includedUSD 11 000
- Algerian partner searchUSD 10 000
- Partner introduction and negotiationUSD 20 000
- Completion fee on contract awardUSD 50 000
- Project follow-upa monthUSD 3 500
These are starting prices, foreign full retail, without Algerian VAT. The firm quote is instant once the answers of the request form are in.
Ask for a firm quoteFill in the request form for your Algerian market entry
Firm USD quote as soon as we hold every answer, each service paid when its work starts
A Hong Kong group incorporating in Algeria without anyone boarding a plane
An international corporate-services agency brought us a file on behalf of one of its own clients: a steel-structure and solar EPC group, held through a Hong Kong company, with three further Chinese entities and an individual shareholder in the ownership chain above it. Five parties, several jurisdictions of paperwork, and not one director able to spare the trip for the steps where Algerian law wants a human being in the room.
That constraint is the whole problem, and it has one clean solution: the resident-gerant workflow. An Algerian-resident manager appears in person wherever a person is legally required, the foreign shareholder never travels, and control stays entirely with the shareholder.
The order of operations is what most people get wrong, so here is ours, exactly as we run it.
1. The documents. Every corporate document from every party in the chain, legalised for use in Algeria. This is where files die: one missing certificate, one translation that is not sworn, and the whole sequence stalls before it starts. We build the list per shareholder and check each piece before anything is filed.
2. The provisional bank account. The gerant obtains the notary authorisation and opens it, which is what lets the share capital arrive through the official banking channel. The bank then issues the capital subscription attestation.
3. The Registre du Commerce. Statutes signed at the notary, legal publication, then the CNRC filing. The RC is the document the client actually needs, and everything after it depends on holding it.
4. CASNOS. The gerant is a non-salaried manager, so the social affiliation follows the RC, within the regulatory window.
5. NIF and C20. The tax identification file, which is what turns a registered company into one that can invoice.
6. NIS. The statistical identification number, required for the customs and banking formalities that follow.
7. The full operating bank account. The provisional account converts, and the company can move money rather than merely hold capital.
The agency keeps one point of contact throughout and a client it never has to route through a flight or a local fixer. That is the pattern we are built to repeat: the foreign partner owns the client relationship, UpGrowth owns the execution inside Algeria.
Who we deliver alongside
You are not handing your market entry to a stranger working alone. UpGrowth runs your file alongside an international corporate-services partner, an international innovation-ecosystem partner, and a vetted Algerian network of the notaries, banking relationships, domiciliation and real-estate providers your incorporation actually passes through.
Vanzbon
International corporate-services partner
Skolkovo
International innovation-ecosystem partner
Vetted Algerian network
Notaries, banking relationships, domiciliation and real estate
- Russian Venture Forum Country Ecosystem Partner for Algeria, 2026 to 2028, through IVF RT
- Speaker at Startup Village 2026, Moscow, Skolkovo's conference
- Exhibitor at Web Summit Qatar 2025 and 2026
- Requests from companies in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq
What we guarantee
A firm itemized quote in USD as soon as we hold every answer we need, a price locked by contract with no hidden fees, one point of contact from filing to collection, and a WhatsApp reply within 4 working hours. Processing times belong to the administrations. We do not promise them, and a provider who does is promising something they cannot hold. What we do instead is file a complete dossier the first time, prepare the two paths that really move your calendar, document legalization in your country and the bank's KYC review, and tell you exactly where your file stands at every step.
Pricing, and what we commit to
Pricing is in USD at international rates with a firm itemized quote, with each service paid when its work starts and the company formation paid at the notary signing, nothing before. Formation of your Algerian company starts from USD 8,500 when your gérant opens the provisional bank account in person, and from USD 11,000 when UpGrowth signs the office lease and opens the account. Commercial domiciliation in Algiers starts from USD 2,400 a year, the resident manager service is USD 900 a month, and the official and notary fees are paid at cost, in the company's name. On timing we are deliberately precise. The processing calendar belongs to the administrations, the CNRC, the AAPI, the notary and the bank, so we do not sell you a delivery date. What we control is the file: a complete dossier at the first filing, the legalization pack and the bank's KYC pack prepared up front because those are the two paths that really move your calendar, and a status update at every step.
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Send your project, get a plan as soon as we hold every answer
In the request form, give us your sector, whether you invest direct from China or through Hong Kong, the structure (subsidiary, branch or liaison office), the target wilaya and who opens the provisional bank account, your manager or us. You get a firm itemized USD quote as soon as we hold every answer we need, the exact legalization checklist for your documents, and a step-by-step plan, all without leaving your desk.
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