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UNIT 4

FREE ZONES

1. Free zones at seaports, river ports and airports.

2. Operations which prepare the goods for shipment

3. Free zones the entire port area.

1. 4. Goods of domestic origin assembly.

4. into free zones for manufacture, processing and

   2. 5. Other operations in connection with the transport of goods

   3. free zones.

   4. _ to attract export-oriented and industrial zones.

5. in commercial

6. Industrial free zones

7. A distinction between commercial and industrial zones.

5. 8. The commercial and industrial activities

6. in the same free zone.

7. _ to improve their

8. 9. In commercial free zones the usual forms of handling good

9. marketable quality.

10. 10. Free zones the development of a country's external trade.

11. IT IS INTERESTING TO KNOW

12. 6. \

    Of the nearly 319,000 importers who shipped goods into the United States in 1994,

13. 115,000, or 36percent, were one-time importers. Only 350 repeat importers account

14. for a full 50 percent of the total value of merchandise shipped into the country.

15. (facts from "gtobal ⁽Trade Tafl& VoC6, No.2 1996,⁽Washington, (DC)

16. Joke-break

17. Customer Remember that cheese you served me?

18. Waiter Yes, sir

19. Customer Did you say it was imported or deported from Switzerland?