2020

3 minutos Cambodia’s special economic zones (SEZs) are among several Asean peers that boast potential opportunities for US investors, seeking to diversify their supply chains, according to a recent report conducted by an international service firm. It said the bloc’s SEZs are playing an important role in facilitating greater trade between the region and the US through various fiscal and non-fiscal incentives, said Dezan Shira & Associates – a pan-Asia, multi-disciplinary professional services firm, providing legal, tax and operational advice to international corporate investors. Continue lendo→

1 minuto While the world is dotted with free-trade and special economic zones, few are on the scale of Hainan, China’s most populous island, covering an area only slightly smaller than Taiwan, and home to more than 9 million people. Beijing’s latest attempt to reinvent the sleepy tropical island as a massive free-trade port have drawn suggestions that it is trying to replace Hong Kong as the trading entrepôt for multinational companies trying to tap the mainland’s manufacturing base or consumer market. As a World Trade Continue lendo→

2 minutos Covid-19 has become a pandemic that has reverberated across the globe. Its associated detrimental impact on economies has been felt far and wide, with serious disruptions in global value-chains and international trade being evidenced on a daily basis. In the South African context, Covid-19 is threatening to exacerbate the already entrenched socio-economic challenges of poverty, unemployment and inequality that epitomised the country before the virus affected the world.  The Covid-19 pandemic will adversely affect the manufacturing industry in South Africa. No one Continue lendo→

1 minuto Khmer Times’ Sok Chan spoke to Hiroshi Uematsu, chief executive officer of Phnom Penh SEZ, on the role of the special economic zone to attract investment, especially from the manufacturing sector. We focused from creating decent jobs and promoting technical transfers to boosting exports into and out of the Kingdom; especially, exports amid the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. KT: How important are the roles of special economic zones (SEZs) in promoting Cambodia’s export processing industry? Uematsu: Special economic zones can play a Continue lendo→