Luis Manuel Pellerano, president of the Association of Dominican Free Zones, said local industry is accepting the challenge of seeking industries that require skilled labor. He said that the free zone industries hope to attract an increase in the number of firms in the emerging fields of telecommunications, electronics, jewelry, pharmaceutics and footwear industries, and more sophisticated apparel assembly operations. He said that Adozona will be working closely with the Dominican Republic Office for the Promotion of Foreign Investment (OPI) in 1998.
