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GUADELOUPE

CARIBBEAN-CENTRAL AMERICA PROFILE 2018

THE FREE TRADE ZONE / There is a 42-member General Council and The supply, its installation and its operation has
INDUSTRIAL PARKS a 41-member Regional Council which has been entrusted to Global Caribbean Network
The main Industrial Park and Free Zone local legislative and executive powers on the (GCN).
provides facilities for the installation of in-bond islands and is directly elected for a maximum
processing workshops with special tax-free of 6 years. There are three arrondisements With a length of 890 km, the cable infrastructure
customs status. Guadeloupe has three other (districts) subdivided into 36 communes, each consists of 4 segments submarines:
medium-sized industrial parks. These Industrial with a locally elected Municipal Council. The • Segment 1: 365 km between San Juan in
Parks allow for the following main industrial legal system follows the French system. The Puerto Rico and Marigot Saint Martin.
incentives: highest court is the Court of Appeals based in
Basse-Terre. • Segment 2: 325 km between Marigot in St.
• A premium for industrial equipment ranging Martin and Guadeloupe in Baillif.
from 20 to 50 percent of the total amount of GOVERNMENT LEADERS • Segment 3: 76 km from Baillif and Jarry in
the investment, depending on the economic President of the General Council Guadeloupe.
interest of the project and the number of Josette Borel-LINCERTIN • Segment 4: 79 km between Gustavia St.
jobs created. A minimum of five jobs must Boulevard Félix Eboué Barthelemy and St. Martin Marigot.
be created and the premium cannot exceed 97109 Basse-Terre Cedex,
75,000 francs per created job. Guadeloupe The cable has eight fiber pairs and has a
• A special premium for hotel equipment Tel: 590-99-77-77 maximum capacity of over one Terabit per
for the establishment of tourism hotels, Fax: 590-99-76-00 second.
residential hotels, holiday villages and E-mail : info@cg971.fr
joint ownership real estate projects for Website: www.cg971.fr CONTACTS
tourism. To be able to benefit from this, the President of the Regional Council Electricite de France
investment must be at least equal to 700,000 Ary Chalus Rue Euvremont Gone Bergevin,
francs and bring about the creation of at Avenue Paul Lacavé - Petit-Paris B.P. 85,
least five permanent jobs. The premium is 97109 Basse-Terre, 97139 Pointe-a-Pitre,
set contractually per room. Guadeloupe
• An agreed regional premium for industrial Tel: 590-80-40-40 Chambre de Commercce et d’Industrie de
Basse-Terre
projects creating at least three jobs, of which Fax: 590-81-34-19
the value is dependent upon the location of Website: www.regionguadeloupe.fr Chamber of Commerce and Industry of
the establishment. Basse-Terre
• An agriculturally oriented premium for INFRASTRUCTURE 6, rue Victor Hugues
97100 Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe
agricultural and agricultural foods firms, of TRANSPORTATION Tel: 05 90 99 44 44
which the amount varies between 8 percent LAND Fax: 05 90 81 21 17
and 15 percent, with a maximum of 20 Railroads: Privately owned, narrow-gauge
percent of the value of the investment outside plantation lines. Roads: 2,467 km; national Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de
taxes. This premium can be increased by roads: 326km; departmental roads: 601 km; Point-a-Pitre
a subvention to the support of a maximum communal roads: 1,525 km. Chamber of Commerce and Industry of
amount of 20 percent of the investment cost, Point-a-Pitre
for cooperatives and agricultural collective SEA Hotel Consulaire-Rue Felix Eboue
interest firms. Sea Ports: One major port (Pointe-a-Pitre) and 97159 Pointe-a-Pitre,
• An employment premium, which is three yachting ports (Port of Basse-Terre, Wharf Guadeloupe
calculated in whole or in part on the wage at Folle Anse in Marie-Galante, and Bas-du-fort). Tel: 05 90 93 76 00
mass anticipated for the first 48 months of Fax: 05 90 90 21 87
the firm’s operation, represents an agreed AIR Website: www.guadeloupe.cci.fr
fraction of the amount of the retained Airport: Aeroport International Pole Caraibes
salaries. is located about 5 kms from Pointe-a-Pitre, and Complex World Trade Center
serves several international airlines. There are
Guadeloupe Port Authority six smaller airfields. Pointe à Pitre Jarry
Trade Zone International
Tel: 590 213-900 97122 Baie Mahault
Fax: 590 213-969 TELECOMMUNICATION Guadeloupe
Website: www.port-guadeloupe.com France Telecom provides national and Tel: 05 90 25 06 28
international telecommunications services for Fax: 05 90 25 06 29
GOVERNMENT Guadeloupe and its dependents. The Company
Guadeloupe is an Overseas Department of is 54% owned by the Government.
France. The French President is elected by Faced with the development of new digital IN THE U.S.
Embassy of France, Office of Economic and
popular vote for a five-year term. The prefect uses and a growing demand in terms of
is appointed by the French President on the throughput of the Guadeloupian population, Commercial Affairs
advice of the French Ministry of Interior; the the regional authority decided to install a 4101 Reservoir Rd., N.W.,
Presidents of the General and Regional Councils cable telecommunications submarine linking Washington, DC 20007
are elected by the members of those councils. Tel: (202) 944-6000
Guadeloupe to other Caribbean territories. Fax: (202) 944-6336

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