The most exported products are medical devices and products, textile manufacturing, metals and their manufacturers, and others.
During the past year 2023, the free trade zone sector continued to register record figures in its main variables. The value of exports registered US$8.06 billion, evidencing a growth of 3.8% concerning 2022 and representing 70% of the country’s total exports.
According to statements made by Daniel Liranzo, executive director of the National Council of Export Processing Zones (CNZFE), for the first time in the history of the free zone sector, the value of exports reached more than US$8 billion, which is a record figure.
Liranzo said that practically all the productive sectors of free zones registered increases in the value of their exports during the past year, led by the sector of medical devices and products, which registered an exported value of US$2,521.7 million and represented 31.3% of the exports of free zones, becoming the first export product of our country.
This was followed by textile manufacturing, with a growth of 9.0%; metals and their manufacturers, with 40.3% and plastic articles, with 28.9%, among others.
Likewise, Liranzo expressed that in terms of employment, the free zones sector also registered record figures, since for the first time this sector surpassed the threshold of 95,000 direct jobs, registering last year the figure of 197,674 direct jobs.
He expressed that the growth registered in the number of jobs has been at the level of all the free zone parks, registering the highest growth in the parks of the Northern region and the province of Santo Domingo.
He also pointed out that these increases have been the result of the moment of commercial reactivation that is being experienced within this sector, induced by the international demand of merchandise and by the support given to this sector by the Government.
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