There are opportunities for manufacturing and exporting to neighboring countries. Free-trade zones are available for storage, manufacturing and trading operations. The industrial climate is based on the principle of free enterprise. Businessmen, however, are faced with traditionally cumbersome and lengthy bureaucratic procedures, although these have been reduced drastically in certain areas, such as foreign trade. T he workforce, while not highly motivated or disciplined, has a medium level of training.
Laws encourage the development of industries, particularly export industries.
The government regards the development of the free market as a means of improving efficiency in the distribution of the country's economic resources. Consistently, controls of p rices and salaries are practically nonexistent. The typical manufacturing or trading business is a small or medium-size family unit, usually organized as a bearer share corporation or a limited liability partnership. In the rural areas farmers are organized as individual enterprises, partnerships or no minative share corporations. Most foreign companies operating in the country are organized as corporations.