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What is a Free Trade Zone (Recinto Fiscalizado estratégico)

"It is a property located within the circumscription of any customs office, which is enabled for the introduction of merchandise under the customs regime, also known as a strategic fiscal area." (SAT, 2020)

It is the most innovative customs model to expedite your cargo and bring the dispatch process to your city, improving the flow of goods in ports, airports and the border.

Brief History of the Free Trade Zone (FTZ) Model

1600s - 17th century, In the last years of the Renaissance the phenomenon emerged in Italy with Genova, Livorno and Trieste from the Free Port or Porto Franco whose objective was to attract trade from the part of the Atlantic that was growing through flexible regulations for the movement of goods and exemption from, and the model

1700s - 18th century, the concept of Free Port expands to the Caribbean area. Later in the 19th and 20th centuries it became viral to the rest of the world

1934 - Authorized Foreign Trade Zones are established in the United States

2002 - The RFE program is born in Mexico in its initial model

2013 - The first FTZ is established in Shanghai, CN

Homologous or similar concepts in other countries

• Free Ports
• Foreign Trade Zones
• Free Trade Zones
• Free Zones
• Free Zone
• Export Processing Zone
• Recinto Fiscalizado Estratégico
• Porto Franco

Recinto Fiscalizado Estratégico

As economic development of Mexico

• Attract Foreign Investment
• Attract Business
• Create jobs