A customs free area where business can be done. On leaving the free-zone, goods will incur usual duties for the country
Area of the coast isolated from the urban area with its own, or at least adjacent, port where there is an exemption of duty rights for foreign goods.
an area adjoining a port where goods that are intended for reshipment can be received and stored without payment of duties
a designated area in which non-Community goods are treated as outside the customs territory of the Community for the purposes of import duties
a designated part of the customs territory of the Community in which non-Community goods are considered for customs purposes as being outside the Community
a part of the territory of a country where any goods introduced are generally regarded, insofar as import duties and taxes are concerned, as being outside the Customs Territory and are not subject to the usual Customs control
a territory where the VAT and excise duties (as well as possible fees for customs services) do not have to be paid on goods imported and later exported
An area within a country (a seaport, airport, warehouse or any designated area) regarded as being outside its customs territory where importers may bring goods of foreign origin without paying customs duties and taxes, pending their eventual processing, transshipment or re-exportation.
The Free Zone is the part of Western Sahara that lies to the east of the Moroccan Border Wall and west of the actual border line with Algeria and Mauritania, respectively (for map, see external links). Western Sahara is on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories.