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Free-zone activities reopened by Decree 6-2021

Dossier
The legal framework for foreign investment02-marco-legal.md
Domain
The decrees that create the incentiveslegal-incentivos
Room
Invest · The 29-89 regime: benefits and qualification/invertir/incentivos-fiscales
Audited
not audited

Decree 6-2021, passed by 84 votes, removed the ban on 13 activities that had been excluded from the free-zone regime, among them tourism/hotels and ceramic products. MINECO put the expected effect at some 32,000 jobs and more than US$300 million in investment; that is an official projection, not an observed figure. The full list of the 13 reopened activities is not transcribed in the dossier and must be read in the text of the reform. Nor is there an official list of authorized free zones or of active users; the dossier proposes requesting one from MINECO.

The research is written in English; quoted figures, source names and the titles of legal instruments stay in the language their source published them in.

Figures

Votación Decreto 6-2021Congreso de la República
84 votos2021
Actividades cuya prohibición se suprimióCongreso de la República
132021
Empleos proyectados por MINECO (proyección, no observado)Congreso de la República
~32,0002021 (proyección)
Inversión proyectada por MINECO (proyección, no observado)Congreso de la República
>US$300 millones2021 (proyección)

Caveat

official MINECO projection, not an observed figure; the list of 13 activities is not transcribed

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