FREE ZONE PIROT

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FREE ZONE PIROT Transport corridors,infrastructur
e projects and cooperation in the region
Ph.D. Dragan C. Kostic, managing director Free
Zone Pirot
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What the Free Zones are?
Free zone is part of the territory of SERBIA,
separate fenced and marked, where works can be
performed under GUARANTTED SUITABLE AND
FACILITY CONDITION
ABOUT FREE ZONES
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The Free Zone regulations

• GATT (general Agreement of Tariffs and Trade)
• Kyoto convention and revised Kyoto convention -
  1999 year - on the simplification and
  harmonization of customs procedures
• Customs Community Code EU
• National Free Zone Law from 2006. year

ABOUT FREE ZONES
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Why do Free Zones exists?
Enable users SAVING IN BUSINESS (duty, tax,
stimulate measures of economic policy)
Concentrate services and needs in one place
LOGISTICS CENTRE They are means to ATTRACT
INVESTMENTS in the service of regional
developmentEnable INCREASE NUMBER OF EMPLOYED
DIRECT international trade under controlled
channels
ABOUT FREE ZONES
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Activities in Free Zones

• Production of goods,
• finishing,
• LON works,
• storage of goods and raw materials,
• reloading,
• packing,
• bank and financial activities,
• insurance and reinsurance,
• tourist,
• and all other services and activities.

ABOUT FREE ZONES
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Business advantages in Free Zone Pirot

• Releasing of Customs NO PAY CUSTOMS DUTY
• Releasing of VAT NO PAY VAT
• Building constructing without municipality taxes
  
• Using of building without municipality taxes
• (10 years tax holliday)

FREE ZONE PIROT
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Customs and Tax regulations in Zones

• Import of goods and services in the Free Zone are
  exempt from VAT and custom obligations
• There is no obligation to pay customs duties and
  other import charges (VAT) for import of raw
  materials
• Reduced customs procedure
• Goods can temporarily be taken out of the Free
  Zone to the Serbian market for the purpose of
  finalization, repair, refinement and commercial
  presentation

SRBIA ADVANTAGES
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The Free Zone BOOM
ABOUT FREE ZONES
Sourcegt ILO (2003, 2007), EU Commission (2007)
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Distribution of Free Zones
WORLD FREE ZONES
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Free Zones in European Union
WORLD FREE ZONES
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Free Zones in Europe
WORLD FREE ZONES
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Free Zones in North America and USA
WORLD FREE ZONES
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Free Zones in Mexico - Machiadoras
WORLD FREE ZONES
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Free Zones in South America
WORLD FREE ZONES
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Free Zones in Africa
WORLD FREE ZONES
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Free Zones in Asia
WORLD FREE ZONES
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Free Zones in Australia and Oceania
WORLD FREE ZONES
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Free Zones in Serbia
FREE ZONES IN SERBIA
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Serbia geographic position
SRBIA ADVANTAGES
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Free Trade market access

• Duty free exports to the EU
• FTA with Russian Federation - market of 150 mil.
  people. Limited number of exceptions complete
  vehicles, confectionery, some alcoholic beverages
• CEFTA duty free access to 20 million people
  market

SRBIA ADVANTAGES

• Macedonia
• Bosnia
• Croatia
• Albania
• Moldova

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Free Trade agreement with Russia
RUSSIA
Customs 25-45
Customs 1
EU
SEBIA
SRBIA ADVANTAGES
FZ PIROT
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How we work in Free Zone
Production of semi finished goods in Free Zone
Company out of Free Zone
Raw material Storage Stored without Customs and
VAT
Active improvment in Company out of Zone
Company in Free Zone
In procedure taking-out-to-improve semi finished
products in production plants out of free Zone is
allowed that Company do business like all Company
is in border of the Free Zone.
FREE ZONE PIROT
FREE ZONE border
SRBIAN border
EXPORT
IMPORT
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OUR MAIN USER - Michelin cooperation
Free Zone Pirot 65 ha
Tigar Tyres in Free Zone
FREE ZONE PIROT
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OUR VISION Free Zone and Industrial Park PIROT
FREE ZONE brownfield
FREE ZONE 17 ha
II. FAZA NIP 45 ha
I. FAZA NIP 25 ha
FREE ZONE PIROT

65 ha
150 ha
ni 80 km
sofia 85 km
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Regulation plan Free Zone Pirot
FREE ZONE PIROT
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Infrastructure equiped land
FREE ZONE PIROT
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TLT IDEA AND CONCEPT
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Position on main roads and port connections
Natural logistic center
CORRIDOR 4
CORRIDOR 10
FZ PIROT
CONSTANTZA
TRANSPORT LOGISTIC
VARNA
BURGAS
BAR
ISTANBUL
CORRIDOR 8
THESSALONIKI
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Competivity and location advantages
MUNICH
2154 KM
TRIESTE
1928 KM
2016 KM
TRANSPORT LOGISTIC
ISTANBUL
2350530 KM
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Main Project Idea
- Development of the new programs and expanding
of existing services to satisfy need of the
existing and new Zone users - Offer all service
on transport corridore - All transport modalites
on one place - Use EU fonds support - To
offer most favorable price to users
TRANSPORT LOGISTIC
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Concept of TLT
TRANSPORT LOGISTIC
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Actual situation
TRANSPORT LOGISTIC
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Basic TLT services

• Sea transport to ports (Thessaloniki, Burgas,
  Kopar)
• Railroad transport to Free zone Pirot
• Storaging, unloading, reloading of containers
  and customs representation
• Distribution by railroad or road transport for
  the Balkans and EU

TRANSPORT LOGISTIC
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Services at TLT

• Freight Forwarding
• Transport
• Storaging
• Reloading
• Packaging
• Transport vehicles services

TRANSPORT LOGISTIC
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OUR VISION Logistic terminal development

• Establishing of the intermodal TLT
• Reloading village
• Hucke-pack terminal
• Ro-La terminal
• Container terminal

TRANSPORT LOGISTIC
ALL in a duty-free regime
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Microlocation TLT
TRANSPORT LOGISTIC
New bridge E-80 - directly in Tigar Tyres

Road E-80
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Notional TLT plan
ALL In Free Zone Regime
Existing reil road
Container terminal
TRANSPORT LOGISTIC
Ro-La terminal
New reil road
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Our Vision
TRANSPORT LOGISTIC
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CROSS BORDER Logistic center
Neighborhood program Bulgaria Serbia Interreg
IIIA /Phare CBC 2004-2006
FREE ZONE PIROT
Reference 2005/017-457.01/Grants- 05SER03/04/002
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FREE ZONE PIROT www.freezonepirot.co.yu Joint
stock company Serbia , 18300 Pirot Nikole Paica
str Phone [phone] 77 99Fax
381 (0) 10 30 40 73Contact personPh.D. Dragan
C. Kostic, managing director