{"id":39302,"date":"2001-02-05T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2001-02-05T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/less-free-zone-contracts-being-received\/"},"modified":"2001-02-05T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2001-02-05T01:43:56","slug":"less-free-zone-contracts-being-received","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/02\/05\/less-free-zone-contracts-being-received\/","title":{"rendered":"Less free zone contracts being received"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Capellan, president of the Dominican Association of Free Zones, confirmed that free zones have experienced a lull in contracting for 2001. He said that it is true some free zones have had to fire personnel. He said this is primarily a result of the slow down in the US economy. Nevertheless, he said that the cancellations are not significant.  &quot;Orders are down; it is not something to be alarmed about; sales are down, Americans are being cautious, buying less,&quot; said Capellan.  Nevertheless, he believes that in the next three years some 65,000 new jobs will be created in the sector as a result of the process of growth and diversification of export manufacturing in the DR. Free zones today employ about 200,000 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Capellan, president of the Dominican Association of Free Zones, confirmed that free zones have experienced a lull in contracting for 2001. He said that it is true some free zones have had to fire personnel. He said this is primarily a result of the slow down in the US economy. Nevertheless, he said that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/02\/05\/less-free-zone-contracts-being-received\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39302"}],"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=39302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}