Transcript Diapositive 1 - 中華民國國際經濟合作協會

Centre for Facilitation of Investments
Established in November 2005
Under the auspices of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Mission
To promote investment opportunities
and facilitate their implementation
INVESTMENT CODE OF HAITI
Sectors eligible for investment under the code:
EXPORT AND RE-EXPORT
AGRICULTURE
CRAFTS
NATIONAL INDUSTRY
TOURISM AND RELATED
SERVICES
FREE ECONOMIC ZONES
OTHER (special sectors
identified by the government
of Haiti, such as housing)
CORE TAX INCENTIVES - ALL INVESTMENT SECTORS
Total exemption of income tax and municipal
taxes for up to 15 years
Accelerated depreciation
Exemption, up to 20 years, from customs duties
on raw materials
Exoneration of payroll taxes and other direct
internal taxes for up to 15 years
Exoneration of sales taxes on exports
Temporary admission for inward processing of
raw materials and packaging materials
ECONOMIC FREE ZONES
Promoter and/or Operator of Free Zones
Exemption of income taxes for physical and moral
persons for up to 15 years
Exemption from customs duty and taxation of goods
and materials needed for furnishing facilities
Exemption from all local taxes for up to 15 years
Investor or Employee in Free Zones
Free transfer abroad of dividends, profits
and other revenues earned in Haiti
Exemption from income taxes for up to 10
years
HOPE II & HELP ACTS
Haiti Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement
Haiti Economic Lift Program
HOPE II (2018) & HELP 2010–2020
Extends HOPE II to September 30th, 2020
Expands the Wholly Assembled List
Expansion to 200 Million SMEs
Extends Duty-Free Treatment for Wire
Harness Automotive components
Expansion to 200 Million SMEs for knit and
200 Million SMEs for woven
BETTER WORK Program for best practices support.
TRADE AGREEMENTS
Member of CARICOM treaty and finalizing position on the EPA with the
European Union
Haiti is a platform for production directed to exports
EXONERATION OF TARIFF LINES
FROM CUSTOMS DUTIES
Canada
European Union
Switzerland
New Zealand
Australia
Norway
Japan
98.6%
98.3%
100%
100%
100%
99.9%
97.8%
THE EXCEPTIONS REPRESENT
1873 tariff lines for which Haiti
is the only country in the world
not affected by the quasitotality of the American tariff
lines
To this we can add the flexible
rules of origin for product
included in HELP law
TOURISM
Increase of 20.2% versus 2012 (Caribbean Tourism Organization statistics)
Largest increase in Caribbean Region
2013 :
1,063,370 tourists of which:
643,634 in the cruise industry (Solano/RCCL)
419,736 recreational tourists
5 International Hotel Groups
Major tourism project in Southern
Peninsula
Value chain sectors.
INNOVATIVE INDUSTRIES
SURTAB Tablet Manufacturing
Surtab is an electronic manufacturing-December 2013.
The mission of the company is to re-establish Haiti as
a natural “near-shore” high-tech manufacturing
destination.
Surtab serves international markets with affordable,
high-quality Tablet PC’s
Training 4-6 weeks and achieves very rigid
quality requirements
INNOVATIVE INDUSTRIES
TOMS SHOES
Merging manufacturing and art
TOMS. One for One®.
TOMS has given over 15 million pairs of shoes to children in
need
Haiti Artist Collective
Hand-painted shoes in partnership with Haitian company,
Caribbean Craft, ~ 70 designs over 6 seasons.
In January 2014 TOMS began manufacturing
FAIRWAY APPAREL S.A.
CONTACT DETAILS
Rue Jean Gilles, #8,
Blvd. Toussaint Louverture
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Haiti contact: Danny Liu
T: +509-3821-6261
E: [email protected]
Years in operation: 5
Total number of employees: 520
Certifications: Better Works
registered
Main products: Athletic wear tops
and bottoms.
Including: football jerseys, sports
uniforms, tops, shorts, pants
Services: CMT, Sublimation. 100%
synthetic
Customers: Champro, Rawlings
Total output (current overall): 850
dozens/day, 6 working days
Available Capacity: Limited (20%
available capacity)
STATISTICS
Tourism up 20.2%
Low regional homicide rate at 9 per 100,000
Increase in agricultural production 4.5% (rice 18%)
77% primary schooling attendance in 2013
as opposed to 46% in 2006
GDP projected increase 2014 4.5%
Haiti has surpassed China as the second
largest supplier to the US of men’s and
boys’ cotton-knit shirts
67% growth year ending 2/14 export to the
US of girls’ and women’s knit shirts
CFI investments in pipeline increase of 33%
YTD to USD 252 million
WHY HAITII?
Unexploited business opportunities
Strategic location
A fully liberalized economy
Pro-business government
Access to 600 million consumers through free
trade agreements and preferential access
Situated at the crossroads of transatlantic and
Pan-American trade routes through the
Panama Canal
Ratification of international conventions for investment
guarantees and protection: ICSID and MIGA conventions
We have a national arbitration chamber
Signing of bilateral reciprocal protection of investments with
France, United States, Germany, United Kingdom and Spain
Free repatriation of dividends and other income
Guarantee of property rights