{"id":39740,"date":"2001-04-02T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2001-04-02T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/2000-was-good-year-for-free-zones\/"},"modified":"2001-04-02T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2001-04-02T01:43:56","slug":"2000-was-good-year-for-free-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/04\/02\/2000-was-good-year-for-free-zones\/","title":{"rendered":"2000 was good year for free zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The director of the National Council of Export Free Zones, Janette Dominguez, said that 2000 was a good year for the free zone sector in the DR. She said that last year while the number of free zone industries in operation declined 0.6%, several of the 481 businesses in operation announced major expansions which resulted in more jobs. She said the free zones generated 14.7% more in hard currency for the Dominican economy, up from US$887.3 million in 1999 to US$1,018 million in 2000. Of the free zone operations, 52% are textile operations, 12% services, 6% tobacco plants and 4% footwear companies. In 2000, eight new free zone parks were approved, calling for a RD$331 million investment and the creation of 38,000 new jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director of the National Council of Export Free Zones, Janette Dominguez, said that 2000 was a good year for the free zone sector in the DR. She said that last year while the number of free zone industries in operation declined 0.6%, several of the 481 businesses in operation announced major expansions which resulted &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/04\/02\/2000-was-good-year-for-free-zones\/\" 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\/39740"}],"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=39740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}