The free zone offers the investor numerous incentives:

• Tax exemptions for industrial and commercial projects on profit and income tax for a 15 year period, with extensions of up to 10 years for projects that:
  
  • Export 75% or more of their products over a 15 year period.
  • Employ more than 100 workers.
  • Use more than 75% of their production inputs from local raw materials.


• Exemption on import & export duties and fees for goods brought in designated for export.
• Exemption on import & export duties, fees and production tax for goods manufactured in the free zone for export.
• Tax exemption on salaries, wages and bonuses for non-Yemeni employees and workers.
• Freedom of transfer of capital and profits outside the Free Zone.
• Freedom of transfer of salary, wages and bonuses for Non-Yemeni employees and workers.

Projects are protected by legal guarantees against:

• Nationalization or confiscation.
  
• Seizure or freezing of project funds.
  

Projects under the law have the right:



• To be 100% foreign owned and benefit from all concessions granted by the Free Zone Law.
  
  
• The freedom to employ non-Yemeni's, taking into consideration:
  
  • Equal opportunity of local manpower that fulfills the job specification required.
  • Not to employ nationals of countries which are subject to boycott resolutions.