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| WORLD FREE ZONE CONVENTION
Chairman
Graham Mather, President, European Policy Forum,
London and Brussels
| 09.30 -
11.00 |
GROWTH
ECONOMIES AND NEW TECHNIQUES IN TRADE AND MANUFACTURING
 | FREE
ZONES IN LATIN AMERICA - THE LESSONS
 | HELSON
BRAGA, Executive Director, Brazil Export Processing Zones
Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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| THE
IMPORTANCE OF FREE ZONES FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
| JOHN
ESTHER,
Director of Business Development for Seychelles International Business
Authority, Republic of Seychelles |
| Dr.
MICHAEL
TOMDIO, General Manager, National Office for Industrial Free
Zones, Cameroon |
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|
| 11.00 - 11.30 |
Coffee
in Exhibition Area |
| 11.30 -
12.10 |
‘BOOM
TIME’ FOR FREE ZONES IN THE UNITED STATES
| A
Case Study - BMW IN SOUTH CAROLINA
| DONNIE
TURBEVILLE , Head of FZ Operations, BMW Manufacturing
Corporation, South Carolina, USA |
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| THE
SUCCESS OF FREE TRADE ZONES
IN THE USA
| RANDY
CAMPBELL, Executive Director, National Association of
Foreign Trade Zones (NAFTZ), Washington, DC, U.S.A. |
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|
| 12.10 - 12.30 |
E-COMMERCE
AND WORLD TRADE - THE 21ST CENTURY REVOLUTION
| ROBERT
CAPLEHORN, Senior Counsel, bolero.net, London |
|
| 12.30 - 12.50 |
CUTTING
RED TAPE - THE ONE-STOP-TRANSACTION WINDOW SYSTEM
| JORGE
FERNANDEZ CRESPO, Head Officer, Research &
Development Group, National Office of Free Zones, Havana,
Cuba |
|
| 12.50 - 13.00 |
PANEL
SESSION |
| 13.00 - 14.00 |
Luncheon |
| 14.00 - 15.00 |
OPPORTUNITIES
IN THE ‘NEW’ INTERNET ECONOMY
|
‘VIRTUAL’
FREE ZONES
|
AHMAD
BINBYAT, Chief Executive Officer, Dubai Internet City
, United Arab Emirates |
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| CALL
CENTRES
| JEREMY
BROOKES, Senior Partner, Call Centres Group, GVA Grimley
International, UK |
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| INFRASTRUCTURE
ISSUES
| Dr.
MICHAEL LIKOSKY,
Visiting
Research Fellow, Centre for Development Research,
University of Bonn, Germany |
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|
| 15.00 - 15.30 |
TAX
INCENTIVES AND THEIR EFFECTS ON THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
| JOHN
MUTTI, Visiting Senior Fellow, Institute for International
Economics, Washington, D.C.
(former Research Fellow U.S.
Treasury Tax Department) |
|
| 15.30 - 16.00 |
CHAIRMAN’S
SUMMING UP |
| 16.00 |
Tea
and Close of Conference and Exhibition |
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