
Sectors of activity
Are excluded from the benefit of the status of free zone:
- mining companies;
- cotton ginning enterprises;
- international trading and brokerage firms;
- telecommunications companies;
- storage, packaging and repackaging companies, except storage and agricultural input companies. (Law No. 2011-018 establishing the Industrial Free Zone Status of 24 June 2011, Article 7)
- food industry and agri-business, horticulture;
- the wood industry, metal engineering industry and the plastic industry;
- clothing industry synthetic hair (hair pieces and wigs), leathercraft( shoes )
- fishing and sea food processing
- jewelry and motorcycle assembling ;
- the pharmaceutical industry, the cosmetic industry, etc .;
- services: development of computer software, design and production of advertising objects, etc.
The typology of companies already in activity is very varied: