Free Zones: why they are an essential tool for creating quality jobs

"Free zones are areas in which the goods are not subject to customs customary control. and its extraction and export are not taxed ", Expresses AFIP on its official website.

Its main objective is promote commercial activities and industrial exports through cost reduction, tax incentives and simplification of administrative procedures, in addition to providing tax incentives. Thus, free zones are positioning themselves as a key resource to strengthen the competitiveness of nations and the creation of quality jobs.

With this in mind, references and specialists from different sectors and countries around the world will meet in Buenos Aires, specifically The art factory, Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10 April, as part of Congress organized by the World Organization of Free Zones -World FZA Summit BA 2019-, the most relevant event on & # 39;hubs & # 39; Logistics of Latin America in 2019.

Among the topics that will be discussed are: the need to contribute to technological development, as well as the badociation between free zones and scientific research, the comparison with the situation of countries having progressed in successful models, such as the Colombia, Uruguay and Canada. Spain and the relationship of the OECD with the free zones.

In addition, success stories will be presented as 3D incubator, the first European high-tech printing incubator of the consortium of the Barcelona Free Trade Area; Houston Harbor and Dow Chemical; Oil and gas, the success stories of Houston and ZF off-shore, as well as that of the Bogotá Free Trade Zone, which, after 20 years of activity, has added 400 companies generating 90,000 direct and indirect jobs.

The badysis of specific topics such as e-commerce, logistics hubs, free trade areas, Disruptive Logistics 4.0 in the free trade area and the opportunity to know the prospects of free zones as a mainstay of the new era in Brazil and the conclusions about the future of the free zones of South America.

In the country, It was not until 1996 that the Promotion of Free Zones Act was promulgated -Law 24.331- but its instrumentation, even today, has not allowed the maximum possible development, especially as regards the establishment of production processes and knowledge incubators that contribute the most to the GDP .

Thus, with the different regulations and events such as the World FZA Summit BA 2019, the Free Zone seeks to continue to develop and provide solutions to companies, entrepreneurs, producers, exporters and importers, in a differentiated commercial environment and with unique features, where the application of a scheme involving tax benefits makes very attractive investments, production, synergy and the subsequent creation of a real job.