Uzbekistan Doing Business 2020

Case study assumptions
The dispute in the case study involves the breach of a sales contract between two domestic
businesses. The case study assumes that the court hears an expert on the quality of the goods in
dispute. This distinguishes the case from simple debt enforcement.
To make the data on the time and comparable across economies, several assumptions about the
case are used:
- The dispute concerns a lawful transaction between two businesses (Seller and Buyer), both
located in the economy’s largest business city. For 11 economies the data are also collected for the
second largest business city.
- The Buyer orders custom-made furniture, then fails to pay alleging that the goods are not of
adequate quality.
- The value of the dispute is 200% of the income per capita or the equivalent in local currency of
USD 5,000, whichever is greater.
- The Seller sues the Buyer before the court with jurisdiction over commercial cases worth 200% of
income per capita or $5,000 whichever is greater.
- The Seller requests the pretrial attachment of the defendant’s movable assets to secure the
claim.
- The claim is disputed on the merits because of Buyer’s allegation that the quality of the goods
was not adequate.
- The judge decides in favor of the seller; there is no appeal.
- The Seller enforces the judgment through a public sale of the Buyer’s movable assets.
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Enforcing Contracts - Uzbekistan
Figure – Enforcing Contracts in Uzbekistan – Score
Time
91.4
Cost
77.1
Quality of judicial processes index
47.2
Figure – Enforcing Contracts in Uzbekistan and comparator economies – Ranking and Score
DB 2020 Enforcing Contracts Score
0
100
81.3: Kazakhstan (Rank: 4)
72.2: Russian Federation (Rank: 21)