Foreign Direct Investment in Iran - Free Trade Zones and Special Economic Zones

Free Trade Zones and Special Economic Zones

See also: Taxation in Iran's FTZs, Banking in Iran's FTZs, Petrochemicals in Iran's FTZs, and Iranian Oil Bourse

Iran's interest in free zones can be traced back to the 1970s.

Read more about this topic:  Foreign Direct Investment In Iran

Famous quotes containing the words free, trade, zones, special and/or economic:

    The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn’t help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    And trade is art, and art’s philosophy,
    In Paris.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

    The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates—the inhabitants of marketing zones in the consumer goods society, television audiences and news magazine readerships... vote with money at the cash counter rather than with the ballot paper at the polling booth.
    —J.G. (James Graham)

    Navarette, a Chinese missionary, agrees with Leibniz and says that “It is the special providence of God that the Chinese did not know what was done in Christendom; for if they did, there would be never a man among them, but would spit in our faces.”
    Matthew Tindal (1653–1733)

    The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
    Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)