OREANDA-NEWS. December 24, 2007. The coming year will be the anniversary for FEZ Gomel-Raton (Belarus): it will be 10 years from the FEZ formation in March 2008. As evident from preliminary results Gomel FEZ enters the coming anniversary year with the good dynamics of development. First of all it concerns the current five-year plan indices such as versatile trade and economic relations expansion, export-oriented productions development, growth of export that provide currency intake and productions modernization, a press release of  Gomel-Raton FEZ says.

Enterprises-residents of FEZ are at export-import transactions with 33 countries. Foreign trade turnover volume for 10 months of the current year has grown by 56,3 % and amounted to USD202,6 mln. in comparison with USD129,7 mln. for the similar period of the last year. At the same time contacts with potential investors from Europe and Asia are widen. Regular relations with business circles of China, South Korea, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Lithuania and Latvia were established during the current year. Business relations with Russian regions, mainly with Moscow and St.-Petersburg, became stronger. Russian capital in total foreign investments volume, attracted by FEZ residents, amounted 36,9 % in the current year and take the lead over such countries as Germany and Liechtenstein, which organized large-scale enterprises in FEZ.

A major achievement is that FEZ became one of the main sources of direct foreign investments intake of Gomel region in 2007. Thus during January-September of the current year the share of FEZ in total direct foreign investments volume, which came in on region enterprises, amounted 44,4 %, that is 51,4 % of total investments of the city of Gomel .

Thanks to investments attraction new productions are created and active ones are modernized. Thus, according provisional data the capital assets investments of FEZ enterprises-residents for 11 months amounted USD19,8 mln. in comparison with USD13,9 mln. for the similar period of the last year. Production manufacture volume for the period became 47% greater. Noticeably more products are exported. According official statistics, the export volume for January-October of the current year mounted USD101,6 mln. in comparison with USD64,0 mln. by the date of the last year.

Foreign enterprises in FEZ demonstrates stable export volume growth: Belcaps - by 150%, Kashtan and Intertapes - by 135%, JV Komkont . by 240%, Gomelcable, Rosbelpack and Stekloservice - by 180%. For the mentioned period domestic enterprises Raton, Kristal, Gomel Radiozavod, increased export volume more then by 150%. On the whole FEZ has positive balance of foreign trade turnover.

FEZ enterprises-residents created for citizens 500 new workplaces and paid (by October 1, 2007) more then BLR38 bln. of taxes, dues and different payments to budget and off-budget funds (that is 38,6% greater than as of the same date of the last year). It is expected that their share in the budget will be increased by more then a quarter till the end of the year.