Weekly Report - 19 April 2018 (WR-18-15)

MEXICO | New special economic zones. President Enrique Peña Nieto signed a decree on 17 April creating two new special economic zones (ZEEs) in the south-eastern states of Campeche and Tabasco. In 2016, the Peña Nieto administration introduced the ZEEs, which offer fiscal and other benefits to firms that set up operations in these areas, as a way to encourage investments and prosperity in some of Mexico’s less economically developed southern areas.

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