American firms moving their factories to foreign countries in search of cheap labor and reduced taxes is not a new phenomenon. Perhaps less widely known, is these companies flock to Export Processing ...

The gains meant to be derived from the establishment and effectively functional Free Trade Zones (FTZs) are being eroded by bad practices and weak regulations within the sector. The FTZs model, ...

After years of holding out on the issue of trade unions in the export processing zone in Bangladesh, where there are more than 450 apparel-producing factories and about 400,000 workers, the Bangladesh ...

Chennai: In a first, Special Economic Zones (SEZs) for marine exports are being set up in the country to promote the seafood ...

Trade, Investments, and Industry Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria has gazetted three pieces of land in Kwale, Mombasa, and Machakos counties respectively as Export Processing Zones (EPZ). Relief for the ...

Taita-Taveta county government has allocated the Export Processing Zone Authority (EPZA) a total of 240 acres of land to put up a multi-billion shillings special economic processing zone in Voi town.

About 120 workers were injured after a factory fire razed the Housing Technology Industries (HTI) plant in the Cavite Export Processing Zone (CEPZ), located south of the Philippine capital Manila. The ...

The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority has declared that petroleum companies operating in free zones, export processing zones and other designated areas in Nigeria remain ...

The Private Sector Development Support Project (PSDSP) project has helped transform the market for serviced land for greenfield investments in Bangladesh. Between 2016 and 2018, the project has thus ...

This question has become pertinent following the proposed framework by the Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ), which will allow Free Trade Zone Entities (FTZEs) to sell securities to the ...