Ministro Bisonó destaca crecimiento del sector zona franca

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00:00From an extension of the Skoll Center to Ventus, in the 2000s it started with just 100 employees

00:10and today in this extension where 560 more are integrated, around 6,000 employees.

00:16But the interesting thing is that today it is announced here that a building is going to be built

00:22near Máximo Gómez, of about 25,000 square meters, where there will be 3,000 more places for 2027.

00:30That means, it clearly indicates the confidence that there is in the Dominican Republic,

00:37in the government of President Abinader, in the response that there is to social, economic and political stability,

00:44and what creates that is the employment opportunity for the entire Dominican people.

00:49Minister, how are the figures in the Franco area? How did the evolution end in 2024?

00:55The truth is that we are very satisfied and I think it is something to celebrate everything,

01:00because the Franco areas are spread throughout the national territory,

01:04and we are talking about the fact that today they represent 67% of exports.

01:09We closed the year 2024 at 8,600 million dollars.

01:14For you to have an idea, in 2020 we exported 5,000 million dollars.

01:19That is, we are growing, there are 198,500 jobs more or less,

01:26and in addition to that, they are jobs of higher quality and better pay.

01:31That is, we are very satisfied with the supply chain,

01:35because in 2020 about 80,000 million pesos were bought from the national industry,

01:41and today we are at 150,000 million pesos.

01:44More boxes are bought, more glue, more tools,

01:49and I believe that this is a reflection of how happy the sector is

01:54and of the confidence that the Dominican Republic has in its people.

01:58Because the main matter of the Franco area, remember that in addition to being a special regime,

02:04it is the people, the people who work there.

02:08That is why they also come to settle in the Dominican Republic.

02:12More growth.

02:14Coincidentally, yesterday we celebrated an event with the State Department of the United States.

02:19I invite you to look for the tweet of the American embassy

02:22that congratulates the Dominican Republic at yesterday's event,

02:27where 12 countries were convened, which are part of the Alliance for the Development of Prosperity,

02:34and they already see the Dominican Republic as the alternative

02:37in the face of the noise that there is today in the whole world,

02:41the instability, the issue of the arrangements that Trump threatens Mexico,

02:45that he threatens Canada,

02:47and that, however, the Dominican Republic is still a destination of political, social and economic confidence.