Textiles above     The technical secretary of the CZF, Ramon Lacayo, assured that the textileras experienced the greater growth of the regime, with about 140 million exported dollars more in the 2006, to add about 780 million of the total of the exports of the frank zones.

The 99 companies of frank zones that operate in the different municipalities from Nicaragua exported during 2006 more than 1.000 million dollars, according to revealed preliminary data to the PRESS by the executive secretary of the National Corporation of Zonas Francas (CNZF), Ramon Lacayo.

This number means a growth of more of the 30 percent with respect to the 2005, when the regime closed with approximately 700 million dollars in exports, according to remembered the executive director of the National Commission of Zonas Francas (CNZF), Carlos Zúñiga.

For Lacayo the 2006 were a “year record” for the sector, because besides to surpass is more than one hundred million dollars the annual projection of the exports, also were reached the 81 thousand generated uses.

The executive secretary of the corporation added that also he increased the value added of the exports. That is to say, the currencies that the country has left.

These currencies, according to data of the CZF, happened of 240 million in the 2005 to 350 million dollars in the 2006.

“WELL TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF” TPL

Lacayo valued that the rise in the indices of the frank zones obeys to a great extent to the benefit of the Preferential Tariff Regime (TPL, by its abbreviations in English).

Zúñiga explained that the 100 million meters of fabric that the country can matter from any part of the world to elaborate articles and to export them they took advantage of 83 million, due to the delayed entrance of the Free Trade Agreement with the United States (Dr-Cafta), the 1 of April of the 2006.

Nevertheless, Lacayo considered that for end of the first trimester of the 2007 regime of frank zones already it would have used the 100 million meters of fabrics available for this period.

Lacayo added that for this year the regime will bet to the diversification of the industry, with about 240 million dollars that hope to be invested in the country, according to the signals of economic stability that it gives the government of the sandinista, Daniel Ortega, who tomorrow assumes the Presidency of the Republic.