Home - Zona Libre del Sur

Office Location

3540 Ave Santiago de los Caballeros
Ponce, Puerto Rico

office Hours

Mon-Fri: 8:00 AM - 5:00PM

Welcome To Zona Libre del Sur

Your Strategic Gateway to Global Trade

Reduce operational costs, improve cash flow, and expand your business through Puerto Rico’s Foreign Trade Zone #163.

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Strategic Location

Located at the Port of Ponce, minutes from Mercedita Airport and positioned between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea—connecting North America, South America, and global markets.

Reduce Operational Costs

Defer, reduce, or eliminate customs duties and local taxes while your merchandise remains inside the Zone, improving cash flow and financial efficiency.

Integrated Solutions

Facilities designed for loading, unloading, storing, manufacturing, processing, exhibiting, and re-exporting merchandise by land, sea, or air.

Grantee and Operator of Foreign Trade Zone #163

Located in Ponce, Puerto Rico

We are grantee-operator of the Free Trade Zone #163, since November 1996, located in Ponce, Puerto Rico (USA). An enclosed and secured area, adjacent to a port of entry, furnished with facilities for loading, unloading, handling, storing, operate, manipulating, manufacturing, and exhibit goods, and for reshipping them by land, water or air.

Tax & Duty Benefits

Cash Flow Optimization

Operational Flexibility

Infrastructure & Accessibility

We help you lower operational costs!

Zona Libre del Sur may promote and sponsor Sub-Zones for companies whose operations cannot be accommodated within the General Purpose Zone, particularly for manufacturing and distribution activities that provide significant public benefit.

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Economic Advantages

The mission of the Foreign Trade Zone is to provide economic advantages and support services to companies and investors through a Free Trade program that promotes socioeconomic development and local and international commercial exchange. This mission is achieved by following a strict Business Strategic Plan.

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Customers Testimonial

Experiences

"The Southern Free Zone has been vital to the development of Global Mattress. It has allowed us to manufacture, store and display our products under a program that has produced great tax benefits, among them the deferral of local and federal duty payments, and zero obligation in taxes on real and personal property"

Eric Correa

Global Mattress

"The use of the Free Zone Program allowed us to import products which are finished here. It has increased our sales, since we are more competitive. By not paying CRIM, we can have more inventory and supply needs in case of emergencies. We've been on the show for 23 years."

Luis Vázquez

Peerless

" Since we entered the Free Zone Program in 2009, Colomer & Suárez have benefited by implementing rigurous security standards, better inventory controls and internal procedures. In addition, we have obtain substancial savings in CRIM payments"

Alfredo Suárez

Colomer Suárez

"Being in the Zone Program has allowed Serrallés Destillery to manage and control our inventory levels more efficiently, by having the benefit of not paying property taxes, neither duties for damaged merchandise we have in the Foreign Trade Zone. "