1 minuto DFTZ represents the nation’s 2025 vision to facilitate and generate up to US$65 billion worth of goods movement for export, import and transshipment using eCommerce. This national initiative also strives to achieve the aspirations of the Malaysian National eCommerce Strategic Roadmap (NESR) launched in 2016 which is to double the growth of Malaysian eCommerce. DFTZ and many other initiatives under NESR upholds the eCommerce Imperative; eCommerce is a critical stepping block to “future proof” existing business as well as “expand market access”. Continue lendo→

menos de 1 minuto   No one is jobless in Kish Free Trade Zone, the unemployment rate in Qeshm FTZ (about 6%) is half the country’s average and the number of jobless is very low in Aras FTZ, the secretary of High Council of Free Zones said. “The highest unemployment rates among FTZs have been registered for Arvand and Khorramshahr due to lack of infrastructures in the aftermath of Iran-Iraq War (1980–88),” Morteza Bank was also quoted as saying by the Persian daily Shahrvand. Continue lendo→

menos de 1 minuto La Asamblea Legislativa actualizó, este miércoles,  la Ley de Zonas Francas  Industriales y de Comercialización, la medida tomada por las legisladoras y legisladores permitirá contar con regulaciones eficientes y tramites fáciles para el establecimiento y desarrollo de las zonas francas del país, y propiciará una mayor inversión, según consignaron en el decreto avalado con ese propósito. Para aprobar la reforma, el Legislativo consideró que los Estados Unidos, a través de la Corporación del Reto del Milenio y la República de Continue lendo→

1 minuto O Governo boliviano acenou positivamente para uma proposta de contrato firme de fornecimento de gás natural a Mato Grosso. Essa sociedade permitirá a garantia do fornecimento do gás em quantidade suficiente ao setor industrial e também do gás de cozinha às residências mato-grossenses. O anúncio foi feito após reunião da equipe técnica do Estado e da Bolívia, em visita ao governador em exercício Carlos Fávaro na tarde desta quinta-feira (04). “O governador se dedicou muito para isso e nós temos desde o começo Continue lendo→

2 minutos With China’s commerce minister Zhong Shan offering verbal support to building the country’s free-trade ports this week, Beijing’s renewed efforts to pick up the free-trade mantle could contain some substance this time. To accelerate the opening-up of the Chinese economy, Zhong said greater freedom should be given to the local governments in running the free-trade zones, which would eventually be developed into free-trade ports. His statement was published on Tuesday by the Ministry of Commerce. Zhong is the latest senior government official to Continue lendo→

menos de 1 minuto Trade volume at the Port of Kaohsiung’s free-trade zones rose by more than 50 percent as of November, Taiwan International Ports Co said yesterday. Trade volume and trade value in the free-trade zones have grown significantly since the port received London Metal Exchange (LME) certification in 2013, the company said. Total trade volume at the zones last year reached 1.099 million in the January-to-November period, an increase of 56.94 percent from the same period in 2016, according to statistics provided Continue lendo→

1 minuto Os investimentos na Zona de Processamento de Exportação (ZPE) do Porto do Açu serão lentos e vão acontecer ao longo do tempo. Mas já existem investidores estrangeiros interessados na área de livre comércio, de acordo com o presidente da Prumo Logística, José Magela. O presidente Michel Temer assinou no dia 27/12/2017 o decreto que cria a ZPE do Açu, localizada no distrito industrial de São João da Barra, no Estado do Rio de Janeiro. A previsão é que a nova zona esteja Continue lendo→

1 minuto Enthusiasm is creeping ahead of reality as Shanghai makes plans to further develop its free-trade zone into a Hong Kong-style free marketplace. And while there is no concrete operating guide to work from, officials, researchers and company executives are in consensus that the city will need to expand the size of the free-trade zone, liberalise yuan capital accounts, loosen customs requirements and grant free visas to business travellers as it edges closer to becoming a global financial and shipping hub. “A free-trade Continue lendo→

1 minuto Sete em cada dez indústrias que se instalaram no Paraguai nos últimos cinco anos são de brasileiros, segundo dados do governo local. Eles foram atraídos por uma vertiginosa diferença (para menos) nos custos trabalhistas, na conta de energia elétrica e nos impostos, capaz de tirar do vermelho suas margens de lucro e recolocá-los, com preços competitivos, na disputa global por consumidores. O Paraguai tem dois regimes para atração de investimentos: a maquila e a zona franca. Na maquila, a empresa fica livre de Continue lendo→