And its government is well-off, getting revenue from an industrial free-trade zone sited in the middle of the rainforest.

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Each industrial zone with duty-free facilities promoted economic liberty through the phenomenon of convergence.

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As if to emphasise the point, the briefcases given as part of a press kit to journalists at the summit were manufactured in an industrial zone where 13, 000 Jordanian workers piece Israeli components into goods that are sold free of duty in the United States.

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They have allowed some of the country's biggest industrial firms to foster more pliant company unions, such as Ford's, and many maquiladora (free zone) factories along Mexico's northern border get away with unions that are registered (thus excluding any others) but otherwise non-existent.

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This is home to 74 factories that produce mainly textiles and electronic gadgets for export--duty-free and quota-free--to the U.S. These factories make up what is called a qualifying industrial zone (QIZ), an entity designated by the U.S. in 1996 to help increase imports from Jordan.

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