The location is 8km from China, in Dornogobi province, 230km from the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar. Zamyn-Uud is the main hub or border-crossing service for most of Mongolia’s foreign trade and travel, serving as a bridge between Mongolia, China and other Asian countries.

The total planned area of the FEZ is 900 hectares and will comprise of three sections: industrial, commercial and tourism services (including casino and leisure services).

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  • For full details of Mongolia’s free zone programme visit www.mit.pmis.gov.mn or e-mail the UK embassy office@embassyofmongolia.co.uk
  • Zamyn-Uud website: www.zamynuud.mn

 

 

ILO creates new link

The Report of the World Commission on the Social Dimensions of Globalisation, A fair globalisation: creating opportunities for all, was launched in February. The full text can be found on the www.ilo.org website. The commission was headed by the presidents of Finland and Tanzania and benefited from the input of a number of highly regarded international economists. Sections 498-501 address some of the issues pertinent to export processing zones and FDI.

The report was roundly criticised by Martin Wolf, a prominent Financial Times journalist, drawing an immediate response from Giuliano Amato, a member of the commission and former prime minister of Italy.

In Mr Amato’s view, globalisation needs to be considered in terms of people’s needs rather than market efficiency. He said that one of the objectives of the commission was to move the debate on globalisation from rhetoric and acrimony to dialogue and co-operation. What was noteworthy about the report was that, for the first time, diverse actors with sharply opposing views – including multinational corporations, governments, civil society and trade unions – had arrived at a common position on globalisation.

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Mr Amato agreed with Mr Wolf when he said that “the task we confront is huge” and that there were painful dilemmas involving governance and sovereignty facing many countries, particularly the poorest. The response to globalisation must “begin at home”, and the commission pointed to ways in which national action and multilateral institutions can join forces to build lasting institutions founded on shared values, said Mr Amato.

But no policy blueprint for globalisation could succeed unless the many actors involved began to perceive and identify their common interests, said Mr Amato. He argued that this is what the commission has tried to do.

As a result of the interest in the new International Labour Organisation (ILO) database mentioned in the last free zone news (fDi February/March 2004), an easier link has been established to facilitate researchers: www.ilo.org/epz.

 

Campbell quits NAFTZ

Randy Campbell is leaving the Washington-based National Association of Foreign-Trade Zones (NAFTZ), where he has been the executive director. His extensive knowledge of zones and their regulation has encouraged him to set up a new trade consulting firm, Campbell Trade Group Inc. The firm provides consulting and administration services to foreign-trade zones in the US as well as free zone projects around the world.

As a former director of York zone in Pennsylvania, he initiated the application for it to become zone 147, south-central Pennsylvania’s foreign trade zone. This was the first in Pennsylvania to incorporate a regional concept.

Mr Campbell has been involved in advising the US Department of the Treasury and the Department of Homeland Security on to their proper role in the administration of the foreign trade zones programme. He has completed projects with the US Census Bureau to enable it to report exports from foreign-trade zones properly, and with the US Congress to pass legislation to permit weekly entries of merchandise from all types of US foreign trade zones.

In addition, he was an adviser to the Department of the Treasury customs operations advisory committee in the formation of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism.

Through his positions at the NAFTZ and the York County Economic Development Corporation, he has worked with representatives of the World Customs Organization, the World Trade Organization and the governments of the US, Spain, Panama, Aruba, Columbia and South Africa.

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