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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Forich (talk | contribs) at 17:51, 5 May 2008. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Ther is Free trade zone and Free Trade Zones. I quickly fixed this by redirecting free trade zone to Free Trade Zones. This was probably the wrong move... roan 09:15 27 May 2003 (UTC)

FTA is different than FTZ

The article describes mostly free-trade-zones like freeshop, etc. - these are different than Free Trade Area/agreements/zones like EFTA, NAFTA, Balkans FTA matrix, etc.

Ok, I moved the FTA stuff to free trade area as it's not the same thing as a free trade zone. --Vikingstad 18:56, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

The article did not address FTZ in developed countries and did not explain the use of FTZ for logistics and re-branding activities.

dfference between ftz and fez

this may be a really stupid question, but what's the difference between FTZ and a Free economic zone?

Sparsefarce 23:43, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to me the main article here should be Free trade zone Dev1n 21:26, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree: the general phenomenon we're talking about here is a Special Economic Zone, a part of one country (created *unilaterally* by some level of government in that country) where the domestic economic regulations are different to the rest of the country, with the aim of encouraging the development of export-based businesses in the zone. How exactly the zone is 'special' may vary from one zone to another. So all FTZs are SEZs, but not necessarily vice versa, and an SEZ can involve more than just trade barriers.

Besides, Free Trade Zone is a bad choice for the main article because it's a term easily confused with Free Trade Area, which is something totally different - an FTA is created by a *multilateral* agreement to eliminate (most) tariffs and quotas on trade between the parties involved. In this cases the parties to the agreement are generally countries or other organisations capable of signing trade agreements (such as the EU). For example, the US, Mexico and Canada form an FTA by virtue of NAFTA. Incompetent 15:36, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • object to merge of everything. While an overview article may be created, the notions are often different, bot historically and in terms of exact definitions. `'Míkka 20:14, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This is very confusing, I support the idea of unifying everything into "Special Economic Zones", or SEZs, and letting FTZs be a special case of those. The core features of a FTZ should be:
  • Free trade conditions (no tariffs, no custom duties)
  • It should be an industrial estate, with companies specialized in manufacturing activities
  • A liberal regulatory environment
  • Should every FTZ be located at ports??--Forich (talk) 17:48, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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