Country, region |
Goals for creating SEZs |
Features of applying SEZs |
Importance for the national economy |
PRC |
Creation of new effective organizational forms for the development of industrial production and entrepreneurship and promotion of the national economy |
Wide state support, including an advertising and information campaign, soft loans, tariffs for resource provision |
High |
USA |
Improving competitiveness of industry in the world market, reducing costs |
SEZs are mainly in the form of foreign trade zones, technology parks, business zones |
Average |
Russian Federation |
Attraction of modern technologies and foreign investments, international cooperation in production of technically complex products |
There are 25 SEZs of four types: 9 SEZs of industrial-production type; 6 SEZ of technical-innovation type; 9 SEZ of tourist-recreational type, 1 port SEZ. They set up labor productivity and import substitution |
Average |
Dominican Republic |
Obtaining benefits for preferential access to the markets of developed countries, especially the USA |
They form large production capacities in segments previously dependent on agricultural products |
High |
Egypt |
Ensuring export-oriented diversification of the raw material economy |
They provide multi-structure and modern industrialization of the economy |
High |