{"id":240103,"date":"2025-08-13T07:54:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=240103"},"modified":"2025-08-13T08:54:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T12:54:41","slug":"free-zones-continue-to-attract-tech-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/08\/13\/free-zones-continue-to-attract-tech-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Free zones continue to attract tech companies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Inversion-extranjera-en-RD-MICM-1024x559.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-240148\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Inversion-extranjera-en-RD-MICM-1024x559.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Inversion-extranjera-en-RD-MICM-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Inversion-extranjera-en-RD-MICM-768x419.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Inversion-extranjera-en-RD-MICM-1536x838.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Inversion-extranjera-en-RD-MICM-2048x1118.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The duty free manufacturing sector continues to expand attracting major global clients for assembly of electronics and other high tech components, said Claudia Pellerano, president of the Free Zone Industries Association, during a recent meeting organized by the Minister of Industry &amp; Commerce Victor Bisono to present what\u2019s new in the sector with the attendance of President Luis Abinader. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the meeting, Bison\u00f3 delivered the National Strategy for the Promotion of Semiconductors (Enfis) to the President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DR seeks to take the leap to be a regional player in the production of the high tech components for the United States market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Free Zone sector at the close of 2024 represented 3.1% of the GDP and has 198,450 formal direct jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/micm.gob.do\/empresas-globales-apuestan-por-republica-dominicana-para-crecer-y-expandirse\/\">Ministry of Industry &amp; Commerce <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 August 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The duty free manufacturing sector continues to expand attracting major global clients for assembly of electronics and other high tech components, said Claudia Pellerano, president of the Free Zone Industries Association, during a recent meeting organized by the Minister of Industry &amp; Commerce Victor Bisono to present what\u2019s new in the sector with the attendance &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/08\/13\/free-zones-continue-to-attract-tech-companies\/\" 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":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240103"}],"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=240103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240149,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240103\/revisions\/240149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}