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The Colón Free Trade Zone is a free port in Panama dedicated to re-exporting a wide variety of merchandise to Latin America and the Caribbean. It is located on the Caribbean coast, near the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal , in the province of Colón, within the city of Colón though outside its municipal jurisdiction and operates as an ...
Terms include free port (porto Franco), free zone (zona franca), bonded area (US: foreign-trade zone), free economic zone, free-trade zone, export processing zone and maquiladora. Most commonly a free port is a special customs area or small customs territory with generally less strict customs regulations (or no customs duties or controls for ...
The U.S. foreign-trade zones program was created by the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of 1934. The Foreign-Trade Zones Act was one of two key pieces of legislation passed in 1934 in an attempt to mitigate some of the destructive effects of the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs, which had been imposed in 1930. The Foreign-Trade Zones Act was created to "expedite ...
In the early 1960s, developer Raymond Nasher leased a 97-acre (390,000 m 2) cotton field on the edge of Dallas and hired E.G Hamilton of Harrell+Hamilton Architects. . NorthPark Center opened in 1965, anchored by Neiman Marcus (which moved from Preston Center), [7] Titche-Goettinger and Penneys, other stores included Woolworth's, Doubleday, Kroger,
Free economic zones (FEZ), free economic territories (FETs) or free zones (FZ) are a class of special economic zone (SEZ) designated by the trade and commerce administrations of various countries. The term is used to designate areas in which companies are taxed very lightly or not at all to encourage economic activity .
Pollo Campero International headquarters are located in Dallas, Texas. The current facility is in 12,633 square feet (1,173.6 m 2 ) of area in the Hidden Grove office building in North Dallas . The headquarters was previously in a 6,800-square-foot (630 m 2 ) area in Lincoln Center, but moved in 2016.
Haikou International Duty-Free City Shopping Complex, is the world's biggest stand-alone duty-free store in terms of physical size. Located in Haikou, Hainan, China, the buildings have a total area of 280,000 square meters. [1] [2] Aelia Duty Free – a brand of Lagardère Travel Retail. [3] Comturist – a chain of duty-free stores.
The Wilson Building at Main and Ervay Streets in downtown Dallas housed Titche-Goettinger between 1904 and 1929. Today it is a luxury-apartment building. The downtown Dallas flagship store is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and is a key contributing structure in Dallas' Harwood Historic District and Main Street District.