It already houses a free-trade zone with warehouses, modern office buildings, and even an airport.
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He would like a loose free-trade zone instead of what he sees as a nascent superstate.
Next year a Brazilian-built deepwater port, backed by a free-trade zone, is due to open.
The first phase of a free-trade zone is due to take full effect on January 1st.
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Eventually passed, CAFCA established a free-trade zone that included the USA, the Caribbean and Central America.
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Mr Ramos-Horta, who constitutionally has no control over economic decisions, has been promoting Timor-Leste as a free-trade zone.
And its government is well-off, getting revenue from an industrial free-trade zone sited in the middle of the rainforest.
They also talked about developing a free-trade zone that Chinese manufacturers could use to assemble and ship their products at lower cost.
Europe can create an effective monetary amalgamation and a massive free-trade zone, while allowing the individual nations to retain their political sovereignty.
ASEAN's nascent free-trade zone also excludes services, and tiptoes around labour mobility.
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They were supposed to be discussing a free-trade zone for the region.
Under it, Bolivia will be able to use the 3.58 sq km (1.38 sq miles) build a dock and operate a free-trade zone.
The president said he would continue to actively pursue a free-trade zone of the Americas which would broaden trade between the two nations.
The government has set up a free-trade zone for Chinese companies.
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The island is part of a free-trade zone under Iranian authority.
Officials from China, Japan and South Korea met on the sidelines to start talks on the possibility of a free-trade zone, the three countries said in a joint statement.
The president and Mr Fuentes accuse each other of failing to implement government measures to help Puno, such as laws to create a second university there and a free-trade zone.
Suggesting that the timetable for a free-trade zone, which was agreed on in 1997, should be speeded up, he invited his colleagues to meet again in Cairo for a special economic summit.
They included Kim Jong U, who had been in charge of attracting foreign investments to a free-trade zone, and Choi Yong Hae, who had links to South Korean businessmen, and who had been something of a go-between for the two Koreas.
However, many of these benefits have diminished in the 30 years since Britain joined the predecessor to the EU. One of the EU's main purposes is to be a regional free-trade zone, and Britain is now prohibited from granting its former colonies special privileges.
The top corruption cases include continuing ones involving two former transport ministers, Chan Kong Choy and Ling Liong Sik, who were charged with cheating following cost overruns at a free-trade zone development, and Khir Toyo, the former chief minister of Selangor State.
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APEC's formal program contains admirable proposals for further tariff reductions toward the goal of an Asia-Pacific free trade zone.
It stated the two principal opposing positions regarding the US-inspired free trade zone that would stretch from Canada to Chili.
Second, it should promote a multi-lateral free trade zone in Asia.
Chief among these was a proposal for a hemisphere-wide free trade zone, which would boost investment in the Latin countries as well as expand trade along the lines of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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In China Daily, Prof Gong Jianhua, a maritime affairs specialist at Guangdong Ocean University, welcomes the new coast guard, but says China should promote joint development with neighbours in the South China Sea on the basis of a China-Asean free trade zone to ease "anxiety and suspicion".
There are free-trade advocates, such as the Dutch, inside the euro zone who still want Britain's voice to be heard.
Vladimir Arkhipov, the Russian foreign-trade ministry's representative in Primorsky Krai's free economic zone of Nakhodka wonders why Russians should tend to anything but their own development problems, such as those at Vostochny port.
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The Eurosceptics argue that Iceland already gets most of the benefits of full membership through existing free trade arrangements with the EU and by being part the Schengen visa-free travel zone.
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