{"id":170729,"date":"2021-12-17T08:06:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T12:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=170729"},"modified":"2021-12-17T09:04:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T13:04:27","slug":"free-zone-sectors-grow-big-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/12\/17\/free-zone-sectors-grow-big-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Free zone sectors grow big in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Zonas-Francas-Diario-Libre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-141993\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Zonas-Francas-Diario-Libre.jpg 546w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Zonas-Francas-Diario-Libre-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>From January to December 2021, 100 new companies were approved to operate as export free zones in the Dominican Republic. This meant an investment of around US$231 million and 12,575 additional jobs in the sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the Wednesday, 15 December wrap up meeting of the board of directors of the National Council of Export Free Zones, 24 companies were approved with the investment of US$47.6 million to create 2,690 jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 180,000 are employed in the free zone sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The segments of most growth have been jewelry, cigar products, apparel, electric products, medical products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/elnuevodiario.com.do\/gobierno-aprobo-100-nuevas-empresas-de-zonas-francas-y-cierra-el-ano-con-cifra-record-de-182-mil-empleos-directos\/\">El Nuevo Diario<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 December 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From January to December 2021, 100 new companies were approved to operate as export free zones in the Dominican Republic. This meant an investment of around US$231 million and 12,575 additional jobs in the sector. During the Wednesday, 15 December wrap up meeting of the board of directors of the National Council of Export Free &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/12\/17\/free-zone-sectors-grow-big-in-2021\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170781,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170729\/revisions\/170781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}