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2 minutos Facing the barrage of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, Steve Katz is ducking for cover in the trade-war version of a demilitarized zone. Katz manages a plant at United Chemi-Con in Lansing, North Carolina, a village of about 150 people with no traffic signal. The facility, which makes capacitors for industrial and consumer products, is covered by a foreign-trade zone based in Greensboro. Trade zones are areas in or near ports of entry under U.S. Customs and Border Protection supervision that are generally Continue lendo→

1 minuto The proposal to activate a special economic zone in the city of Genoa, hit by the Morandi bridge disaster, is important. It is facing a human, economic and social catastrophe, and any measure that is useful to accelerate the reconstruction of the bridge and, above all, the trust of the people is welcome. But beyond the facts and the safety of the infrastructure, it would be necessary to have a strategic non-emergency reflection to understand which concrete measures can be put in Continue lendo→

3 minutos Em busca de atrair novas empresas para Zona de Processamento de Exportação do Ceará (ZPE Ceará) em São Gonçalo do Amarante, o Governo do Estado realiza visita à Ásia no próximo mês. Entre as conversas a serem iniciadas, está a tratativa de instalação de uma montadora de veículos na ZPE. “Temos uma siderúrgica e olhamos para outras indústrias. O projeto da montadora é algo em fase inicial. A Ásia é um grande mercado e o Ceará está em busca de uma linha Continue lendo→

2 minutos The Djibouti Free Trade Zone (FTZ) covering 48.2 square kilometres and with four industry clusters once completed, will pave the way for the rise of the Horn of Africa nation as a global trade hub. The FTZ, the largest of its kind in Africa, is focusing on trade and logistics, export processing, business and finance as well as manufacturing and duty-free retail. The East African state broke ground on the FTZ in January 2017 and was officially inaugurated it in July. The facilities including Continue lendo→

menos de 1 minuto Over the last decade, Indonesia’s economic clusters–special economic zones (SEZs) and industrial estates have grown multi-fold, both in terms of number and breadth. In 2014, there were approximately 74 industrial estates with an area of 36,300 hectares in the country. By 2017, the number of industrial estates expanded to 87 with an area of 59,700 hectares. Similarly, the number of SEZs in the country has increased to 12; out of these, four are currently operational, representing economic activities across various Continue lendo→