物流与区域发展经济特区之间的关系以及物流和区域发展外文翻译.doc

物流与区域发展——经济特区之间的关系以及物流和区域发展外文翻译 Logistics and regional development. The relation between special economic zones and logistic and regional development Material Source: TNO Inro Author: M. Iding R. Thijs B. Kuipers 1 CASE STUDY: SINGAPORE 1.1 Free Trade Zones in Singapore 1.1.1 Overview of free trade zones The free port concept of Singapore dates back to the overseas expansion from English and French colonists from the early 18th to the late 19th century who developed in 1819 Singapore and on different point is time: Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Aden and Djibouti into free ports or FTZsZhan 1993 in Chen 1994. The free zone concept belongs to the heritage of Singapore and nowadays Singapore is still a free trade zone/free port. This means that most items can be imported duty free. However some goods are subject to import duties, namely motor vehicles, intoxicating liquors, tobacco products and petroleum products. A goods and services tax GST of 3%is imposed on the supply or importation of goods into Singapore. No GST tax or import duties for dutiable goods are paid when goods stay in assigned free trade zone areas in Singapore. These are the true free trade zones in Singapore, where imports are deposited before they are transferred overseas or enter customs territory in Singapore. Since its independency, Singapore has several free trade zones FTZs which are mainly used for transshipment purposes. Goods are stored within the zones without any customs documentation until they are released in the market, and can be processed break bulk, consolidation, VAL and re-exported with minimum formalities. In this description of a FTZ a bonded warehouse is simply a geographical “satellite” of the free zone concept. The FTZs are located at the Cargo Terminal Complex of Changi Airport, the Port of Singapore, Jurong Port, Sembawang Wharves, and Pasir Panjang Wharves. Instead of the earlier described zones in Chapter 2 and in Curacao and Trinidad and Tobago, no manufacturing t