Glossary

Free Trade Zone

A zone where goods are stored or processed with duty suspended.

A free trade zone is a designated area, often beside a port, where goods can be imported, stored, processed and re-exported with duty and certain regulations suspended. Duty only applies if the goods enter the home market — re-export them and it never falls due. We hold inventory in these zones to give clients room to decide on duty timing and final-market routing later.